Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company have arrested a 42-year-old man who took hundreds of hidden opioid tablets into the rebel enclave in Banki space of Borno State.
The anti-narcotics bureau additionally arrested a six-month pregnant girl; and a mom of three and three different ladies for drug trafficking throughout main interdiction operations carried out by her brokers.
This occurred when the company seized greater than 7,609 kilos of assorted unlawful medicine in eight states.
The spokesperson of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, introduced the developments in an announcement on Sunday.
Babafemi mentioned: “In Borno State, Ahmad Mohammed, a 42-year-old suspected provider of illicit medicine to insurgents in Banki, a border space between Nigeria and Cameroon, was arrested by the NDLEA operatives at Bama checkpoint on Friday, February 9. . When his baggage was searched, 20,000 capsules of tramadol had been recovered from him whereas he was on his solution to ship the opioid cargo within the border metropolis.
“A six-month pregnant girl, Amarachi Akaolisa, 25, and one other girl, Ifeoma Iheanyi, 21, had been among the many six suspects arrested for trafficking in illicit substances in Oraifite and Umuni-Evili, Aguleri, Anambra State. Others arrested embody: Okwuchukwu Chukwuka; Onyedika Ngwu; Ekene Hyginus and Nzomiwu Ikechukwu. Greater than six kilos of hashish, tramadol, diazepam and codeine syrup had been recovered throughout raids carried out by NDLEA officers in elements of the state between Tuesday, February 6 and Thursday, February 8.
“The majority of the seizures had been made in Nasarawa State the place the NDLEA operatives on Sunday, February 4, appearing on credible intelligence, intercepted a truck marked Lagos JJJ 64 YC containing 367 jumbo baggage of hashish sativa weighing 4,037 kilograms from Akure, Ondo State, to be delivered to Shabu space of Lafia, the state capital. Three suspects: Shuaibu Liman, 35; On Monday, Audu, 33, and Linus Samuel, 42, had been arrested in reference to the seizure.
“In Lagos, two girls, Boluwatife Adebayo and Omolade Fola Adebayo, had been among the many suspects arrested throughout raids in elements of the state on Saturday, February 10. Whereas Ogah Sunday Adole and Boluwatife Adebayo had been arrested at Agidingbi, Ikeja, in reference to 220 grams of hashish, 10.6 liters of codeine syrup and different psychotropic substances, Omolade Adebayo was nabbed at Ijesha with varied portions of hashish, codeine syrup, rohypnol and molly.
He famous that operatives in Abuja arrested the duo of Jibrin Shuaibu, 23, and Prosper Innih, 17, with 169 baggage and 80 blocks of compressed hashish sativa weighing 1,961.5kg, hidden in a truck with registration quantity Ogun WDE 557 XC.
In one other operation by the operatives in Abuja on Tuesday, February 6, a suspect, Abdulhameed Dauda, 27, was arrested with 89kg of the identical psychoactive substance loaded into his truck in Owo, Ondo State, for supply in Gwagwalada within the FCT.
On the identical day, he mentioned, operatives additionally intercepted one other driver, Hassan Ade, 30, who was carrying 696.5kg of the identical substance, loaded at Idoani, Ondo State, for supply at Gwagwalada and Dei-Dei in FCT. A follow-up operation led to the arrest of a mom of three, Mrs Pleasure Chukwuka, 42, in reference to the consignment.
Babafemi added: “In Ondo State, other than the seizure of 633.5kg of hashish at Eleyre, Ogbese in Akure North LGA, the NDLEA operatives additionally recovered 59 jumbo baggage of the identical substance loaded right into a truck marked GAD 287 a part of the nation.
“Detergents had been sprayed onto the hashish baggage, ostensibly to suppress the odor of the psychoactive hashish, whereas 192 cartons of desk water had been loaded on high to hide the unlawful cargo.
“At least 187kg of the identical substance was seized by operatives at Sapele Highway, Benin, Edo State, whereas in Kano, NDLEA officers on Monday, February 5, arrested 58-year-old Bashir Attahir in Bachirawa space of the state with 216,000 folks. tablets tramadol 250 mg.”
One other suspect, Ejike Nmenme, 47, was nabbed the following day Tuesday, February 6, with 25,190 capsules of tramadol and varied portions of rohypnol and codeine syrup alongside Emir Highway, within the Sabon Gari space of the town, whereas the duo Yusuf -Abdullahi Musa, 35, and Yusuf Musa, 28, had been arrested in Gadar Tamburawa, with 1,000 ampoules of tramadol injection on them
