Kazeem Owoseni
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has revealed that it has intercepted two drug consignments consisting of ecstasy and skunk, on the exit to the United Arab Emirates.
This was revealed in a statement issued by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja on Sunday.
The agency’s mouthpiece revealed that the NDLEA officers attached to courier companies made the interception.
According to Babafemi, the pills of ecstasy were concealed in a gold color wedding gown, noting, that the skunk was hidden in a microcontroller.
Similarly, a 400-level Marine Engineering student of the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa state, Kelvin Ogenedoro, has been arrested for dealing in 600 grams of skunk.
According to Babafemi, the suspect was nabbed at the university’s gate in a follow-up strategy, following the interception of the consignment in a commercial bus along Tombia-Amassoma road.
Also, an infamous drug dealer in Adamawa state, Ishaku Emzor, popularly known as Lalas, who was convicted and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment in 2010 for drug offenses, was again arrested during a drug deal, on Thursday, April 20, 2023.
He was said to have been arrested at Hayin Gada, Imburu Numan’s local government area of the state, where he went to supply 1.650kgof cannabis to an undercover operative.
“His Yellow Press Cub motorcycle used for supplying illicit drugs was recovered from him at the point of arrest.
“Also, a cash of N78,120 suspected to proceed of the illegal business was also seized from him.
“On the same day in Kaduna, operatives acting on credible intelligence intercepted a truck conveying 110 bags and 200 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa in Zaria.
“The drugs were weighing 1,223kg while the truck driver, Adekunle Olanrewaju, 32, and his assistant, Tunde Jamiu, 20, were arrested,” Mr. Babafemi said.
NAN
