The NDLEA made a major break in Edo State when it apprehended Haruna Favour, a 25-year-old pregnant woman, in Auchi, Edo state on Friday 9th September with 82 pinches of methamphetamine as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado cannabis variants, and codeine-based cough syrup.....KINDLY READ THE FULL STORY HERE▶
The Agency also stated that it has had success in other parts of the country. In Gombe, 119,000 tramadol, D5, and Exol5 tablets and capsules were recovered from two drug dealers, Nasiru Abubakar, 22, and Umaru Bayero a.k.a Hadiza, when NDLEA operatives raided their stores at the Gombe main market on Tuesday 6th September.
A suspect, Paul Ali, 47, was apprehended in Kogi along the Okene-Abuja highway with 1,404 bottles of Codeine-based syrup weighing 190.94kg and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection traveling from Onitsha to Sokoto. On Tuesday, September 6th, a follow-up operation in Sokoto resulted in the arrest of the consignment’s receiver.
A raid at a cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo LGA, Ondo State, resulted in the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25; and Obinna Okechukwu, 35, as well as the seizure of sixteen (16) bags of the illicit substance weighing 179.5kg.
Meahwhile , Okolie Paulinus Nwabueze, a Brazilian returnee and father of two, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja, by NDLEA operatives for importing 92 wraps of cocaine, which he ingested and eventually excreted after days under observation in the Agencys facility.
The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday, September 11, that the 53-year-old trafficker from Mmaku village, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State, was apprehended on Friday, September 2nd, upon his arrival on a Qatar Airline flight en route Brazil-Doha-Abuja.
