PANJIM: Notorious Nigerian drug supplier Ugochukwu Solomon Ubabuko has become the first case of detention under the Prevention of Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (PIT-NDPS) Act, in Goa.
A Central Advisory Board headed by Chief Justice of Delhi High Court allowed Narcotics Control Bureau’s plea to detain him for a period of one year under the stringent Act.
The NCB has confirmed that on January 31, 2022, the Board confirmed detention order of the drug dealer under the Act.
“Ugochukwu Solomon Ubabuko, a Nigerian national, is repeated drug offender and several drug cases have been registered against him by the NCB Goa, Goa Police and Hyderabad Police after his entry in India in 2009,” the NCB official told Herald.
Earlier, the Central government, while considering the proposal submitted by the NCB for preventive detention of Ubabuko had passed Detention Order against him on November 3, 2021. Subsequently on November 7, 2021, he was served the Detention Order in Central Jail, Colvale.
In December 2021, Central Advisory Board conducted hearing in this case in Goa and thereafter submitted its recommendations to the Central government.
With this, the repeat drug offender will remain under Preventive Detention for one year. His jail term will be counted from the day he was served the order in the Central Jail.
Three persons, Ubabuko, Hemant Sah and a Congo national John Infinity alias David were arrested during a series of raids pan-Goa on March 7-8 while they were found in possession of a cocktail of drugs. Their connection with the drug cartel also surfaced after suicide of Bollywood actor Sushant Singh Rajput.
The Nigerian, also booked for creating a ruckus on the national highway at Porvorim way back in 2013, was also booked in a drug offence in Hyderabad in August 2018
Herald was the only daily to report about the Nigerian’s detention under PIT-NDPS, last year, with proposal by the NCB against a few others to also take shape.
