Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on New Yr’s Day intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a really robust pressure of hashish, hid in boxing kits imported from the US of America.
This was made recognized in a press assertion launched by Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja on Sunday seventh January, 2024.
The Company revealed that it took a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday sixth January following the profitable monitoring and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributed the harmful psychoactive substance to sellers throughout Lagos state.
The consignment had arrived within the nation on Monday 1st January by way of Cairo on an Egypt Airways flight marked as boxing kits.
In response to Saheed, he delivers such consignments to totally different recipients at any time when his childhood pal, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. The newest cargo has a complete weight of 1.80 kilograms.
In the meantime, a 28-year-old feminine provider of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman got here prime on the record of twelve (12) different suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new 12 months interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.
Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday third January by NDLEA officers on patrol alongside Zaria Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of seven.62 mm dwell ammunition hid in a black nylon bag saved in her girl’s purse.
She was on her solution to ship the ammunition to an recognized bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina state when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Drive for additional investigation.
The army authorities on the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday 2nd January transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37 and 63 jumbo baggage of Ghana Loud, a pressure of hashish, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.
The suspect and the drug displays had been earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on twelfth December 2023 near the gate of the army cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island. Some armed escorts nonetheless resorted to sporadic taking pictures to impede the operation, a improvement which attracted troopers from the cantonment, who finally intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect earlier than transferring them to the Company.
In the identical vein, NDLEA operatives in Niger state on Thursday fifth January throughout a cease and search operation alongside Suleja-Kaduna highway intercepted a J5 bus coming from Ondo state to Zaria, Kaduna state with twenty-three (23) baggage of hashish sativa weighing 219.5kg. Two suspects: Umar Musa, 26 and Isachiru Abubakar had been arrested in reference to the seizure.
Whereas a feminine drug trafficker, Queen Onyema, 27, was arrested on Saturday sixth January in a industrial bus enroute Abuja alongside Okene-Lokoja expressway with 12 compressed blocks of hashish weighing 4.6kg and 0.046kg designer medicine hid in an indomie carton, one other suspect Mubarak Sani, 20, was nabbed at Gadar Tamburawa space of Kano on Monday 1st January with 445.9k kilograms of the identical psychoactive substance.
In Borno, 4 suspects: Zanna Alhaji Dala, 32; Musa Umar, 21; Mushe Ibrahim, 23, and Shehu Idris, 19 had been arrested at Pomfomari bye go space of the state with 60kg hashish.
Additionally, in Osun, NDLEA operatives on patrol alongside Osogbo-Ode Omu highway on new 12 months day, Monday 1st January intercepted a consignment of illicit medicine despatched by means of waybill from Lagos to Osogbo. A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Ibrahim Olawale, 43. The medicine recovered embody: hashish sativa 10.8kg; Loud 150grams; Colorado 19grams; Molly 5grams totalling 10.974kg. A digital scale, N18,000 financial exhibit and customised wrapping papers for Colorado had been additionally seized.
NDLEA Instructions throughout the 36 states and the FCT equally continued their Battle In opposition to Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitisation lectures in colleges, communities, work locations and others. A few of these embody: WADA sensitisation lecture for college kids of Nurul Huda Neighborhood Islamiyya college, Farin Yaro, Katsina; members of first assist group of Jamaatul Izalatul Bidia Waiqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) at Ajilari neighborhood college, Gomari, Maiduguri, Borno; WADA sensitisation lecture on the 2024 Oke Afo youth day, Olorunda LCDA Lagos and WADA advocacy go to to the Emir of Gaya, Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Gaya by the Kano state command of the Company.
Commending the arrests and seizures of the previous week by officers and males of the MMIA, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun Instructions, Chairman/Chief Government Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) charged them and their compatriots throughout all formations of the Company to proceed to stay vigilant and double their drug demand discount in addition to drug provide discount efforts within the new 12 months.
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