Arrests 2 suspects; recovers large consignments of
skunk, heroin, opioids in Kano, Kwara, Kaduna, Taraba, Abia, Osun, and FCT
raids
Desperate bids by some drug trafficking organisations
(DTO) to move illicit consignments such as Cocaine, Tramadol, Loud, Molly and
others concealed in prayer beads, packs of board games, female cloths to the
United States of America, Saudi Arabia, Italy, Poland, and United Arab Emirates
through logistics firms and the Lagos airport have been thwarted by operatives
of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
At least, two suspects behind some of the aborted
missions at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos have
already been arrested. One of them is a 43-year-old businesswoman, Jakpor
Egware May who was nabbed at the Gate ‘C’ departure hall of the Lagos airport
while attempting to board an Air France flight to Italy on Saturday 8th March
2025.
When she was searched, 190 parcels of tramadol 225mg
and another parcel of skunk, a strain of cannabis, were recovered from her
luggage. In her statement, she claimed that she bought the drugs herself, with
the intention to resell them in Italy.
At the export shed of the Lagos airport, NDLEA
officers on Tuesday 11th March arrested
a 60-year-old suspect, Yahaya Fatai Ayinla, while
attempting to ship a cargo containing cloths used to conceal 400grams of skunk
going to New York, United States of America.
At some logistics companies in Lagos, efforts by drug
traffickers to export over two kilograms of Loud, Molly, Tramadol 365mg, 225mg
hidden in Vitamin C bottles and female cloths to the US were frustrated by
NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation,
DOGI. Other shipments of 230grams of cocaine concealed in prayer beads, soles
of locally made shoes and packs of board games heading to Saudi Arabia, Poland
and UAE were equally intercepted between Monday 10th and Wednesday 12th March.
In Kano, a total of 727 blocks of compressed skunk
weighing 479kg were recovered from a 40-year-old suspect Hassan Haruna who was
arrested by NDLEA operatives at Chalawa area of the state on Wednesday 12th
March, while no fewer than 58,300 pills of tramadol were intercepted along
Kabba-Obajana highway, Kogi state in a commercial bus coming from Lagos enroute
Abuja on Tuesday 11th March.
Raid operations in Kachia, Kaduna state on Thursday
13th March led to the arrest of Idris Hamza, 21, with 4,900 pills of tramadol
225mg seized from him, just as a similar exercise in Hayin Banki area of Kaduna
North LGA, on Friday 14th March resulted in the arrest of 25-year-old Aminu
Magaji from whom 2,900 tablets of tramadol 225mg were recovered.
While a total of 40, 200 tablets of tramadol 225mg
were recovered from the duo of Olowoko Faruk and Akeem Ridwan along Ilorin -
Jebba expressway, Bode Saadu, Kwara state on Friday 14th March, NDLEA
operatives equally seized 21,700 capsules of same opioid from a suspect Salisu
Usman along Eiyenkorin expressway, Ilorin on Thursday 13th March.
In Taraba state, NDLEA officers on Friday 14th March
arrested Polycarp Adeku, 35, at Bente road, Kurmi LGA, with 15.77Kg skunk,
while in Osun state, operatives on Thursday 13th March, intercepted a
commercial bus marked SGB 564 YS coming from Idumota, Lagos Island in front of
King University, Ode-omu, with a total of 48.7kg Ghanaian Loud, Colorado and
Canadian Loud, all strains of cannabis. Not less than nine suspects have been
arrested in connection with the seizure in Osogbo and Ile-Ife during follow up
operations.
A 58-year-old suspect Ade Esan (aka Pastor) was on
Tuesday 11th March arrested along Gwagwalada expressway, FCT Abuja with 27,800
pills of tramadol 225mg, while another suspect Usman Mohammed, 26, was nabbed
same day with various quantities of skunk and cocaine at Wuse zone 3 area of
Abuja. In Abia state, NDLEA operatives on Saturday 15th March raided the Ntigha
community, Isiala-Ngwa North LGA, where
a 34-year-old suspect Chinaza Nwogu (aka Young Money) was arrested with
274grams of heroin, 141grams of methamphetamine, 2.931kg of cannabis
sativa, 4grams of cocaine and Seven
Hundred and Fifty Three Thousand, Fifteen Naira (N753,015.00) monetary exhibit.
Meanwhile, Commands and formations of the Agency
across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitization
activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among
others in the past week. These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students
and staff of U.P.E school, Ilara Epe, Lagos; Government Day Secondary School,
Jigalambu, Michika, Adamawa state; Agbegi High Grammar School, Dekina, Kogi
state; Capital City Secondary School, Awka, Anambra state; and Eso-Obe Comprehensive
High School, Ikoro Ekiti, Ekiti state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of MMIA, DOGI, Kano, Kwara, Kaduna, Taraba, Abia, Osun, and FCT Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts are well appreciated
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