•Two female 100 level Poly students among 10 suspects arrested
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a widow, Mrs. Fatima Musa, said to be a notorious drug dealer on Saturday, September 18, at Afana village in Zango Kataf Local Government Area of Kaduna State while moving 12 kilogrammes of cannabis to Jos.
This was just as they uncovered a hotel in Abuja where drugs are sold and young ladies are camped for commercial sex.
The arrested woman was reportedly convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment on July 7, 2020, following her arrest on March 3, 2020 with 45kg of cannabis sativa.
Also, at least four persons, three ladies and a man, were arrested when the drug joint, JAT Suites, located at 30, Lobito Crescent, Wuse 2, was raided and a quantity of Rohynol and paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine were recovered on Wednesday, September 22, 2021.
Disclosing this on Sunday, September 26, 2021, NDLEA‘a Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said investigations revealed that the hotel was operated without requisite approvals in a high profile neighborhood and patronised by call girls, while the bar served as the spot to smoke and sell drugs to the young girls and their customers.
However, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) had directed the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command and the Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations of the Agency to do all within the law to ensure the property is forfeited to the federal government, to serve as deterrence to others who allow their premises to be used for drug dealing.
In the same vein, one Ms. Ozigbo Joy Nneka has been arrested at NAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos while trying to export packs of codeine tablets weighing 15.15kg to the United Kingdom last Wednesday.
A day earlier, on Tuesday, September 21, narcotic officers at the airport also arrested one Nwajindo Ndubuisi Emmanuel during inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E-arrival hall. Some bottles of codeine weighing 5.65kg were recovered from him.
Also, at the airport, a total of 150.30kg of khat was seized on Monday, September 20, after six weeks of placing the consignment, which arrived SAHCO shed on August 2, via Kenyan Airways cargo flight, on surveillance.
In a related development, two female first year students of Edo State Polytechnic, Uzen, Babalola Modupe Angel (19) and Esekhagbe Sonia (20) were arrested on Thursday, September 23, with 21 wraps of skunk, while another lady, Chioma Okocha, 25, was arrested on Friday, September 24, when she tried to deliver 200 grammes of crack cocaine to a customer at an eatery in Benin.
Earlier, same day, men of the Irrua Area Command of the Agency, working on actionable intelligence, evacuated 10 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 135kg in Amahor bush in Igueben area. The exhibits were stored ready for transportation to other parts of the country.
In the same vein, men of the Okada Area Command in the early hours of Sunday, September 26, evacuated 2,937 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa from Utese forest in Ovia North East Local Government Area of Edo State.
Commending the officers and men of the FCT, MMIA, Edo and Kaduna Commands of the Agency for the raids, arrests and seizures in the past week, Gen. Marwa urged them not to rest on their oars until the menace of drug trafficking and abuse is reduced to the barest minimum in every part of the country.
