- Safiu Kehinde
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 40-year-old suspected female drug dealer, Ajoke Dauda, with 45.5 kilogramme of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
Dauda was reportedly arrested on Christmas day at Agbara, along Badagry expressway in Lagos.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
According to the statement, another suspect, Oluwasegun Felix, was also arrested with the same substance in Itoga area of Badagry earlier on Wednesday before the Christmas day arrest of Dauda.
In another operation, a 42-year-old lady Joy Oisamaye was last week Monday arrested with 38kg skunk by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Abaji- Abuja expressway on her way from Otua in Owan East LGA, Edo state.
In Takum area of Taraba state, two other suspects: Emmanuel Danladi, 39, and John Onoja, 41, were nabbed with 48kg of same substance on Wednesday and Tuesday respectively.
NDLEA operatives attached to Gombe State Command also recorded an arrest with the interception of a 65-year-old driver Sada’u Mohammed.
The driver was reportedly arrested while conveying 300 ampoules of pentazocine injection, and 27,900 pills of tramadol, and other opioids, along Gombe-Biu highway, heading to Biu in Borno state.
Meanwhile, the NDLEA’s festive raid was crown with the arrest of a 47-year-old businessman Ignatius Egbochie (alias Brown) wanted in connection with the seizure of 56 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 26kg at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The illicit drug consignment was seized on 10th December during a joint examination of a container by NDLEA, Customs and other security agencies.
A follow up operation by NDLEA operatives on 19th December led to the arrest of Ignatius in Apapa.