Pastor Arrested With Heroin At Enugu Airport.

Pastor Daniel Lanre Akintola, a Lagos-based pastor with  Gospel Faith Mission International, Olayemi Assembly, Ipaja, Lagos, has been arrested by the officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Akintola was said to have being caught with the substance carefully hiding at the bottom of his luggage, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu.

According to the NDLEA Commander at the airport, Mr. Nsikak-Abasi Udoh,he said the pastor wanted to abandon the luggage on the arrival hall. “Mr. Daniel Lanre Akintola unlawfully possessed 1.978kg of heroin while returning from Entebbe, Uganda. He wanted to abandon the luggage but we detected his intention. 

The drug was carefully concealed in a false bottom of his luggage”, he said.

Though Akintola admitted that the lugage actually belong to him, but insisted that he is a pastor, but not a drug tracfiker. That he was on his way back from 'pastors' conference' in Uganda.

“I am a pastor with the Gospel Faith Mission International, Olayemi Assembly, Ipaja, Lagos. I am from Oyo State. I attended a ministers’ conference in Uganda. This bag where heroin was found is mine but I am a pastor and not a drug trafficker,” he said.