- Safiu Kehinde
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has nabbed a 44-year-old female online vendor, Yinka Agboola, following intelligence on her alleged sale of illicit substances.
Agbool was reportedly arrested on Friday with 2.2kg skunk and litres of cannabis oil recovered from her.
As contained in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the suspect allegedly produces the illicit products in her kitchen and sells through online advertisement from her home at the Kaura district, Abuja.
The NDLEA also confirmed the arrest of another suspect, Tordue Pius Richard, who was on Tuesday 13th January apprehended with 148.3 grams of cocaine and skunk at his 12 Biskira street, Abacha Estate, Abuja home.
Also on Tuesday, NDLEA operatives attached to the Kwara state sector raided a residential building at Gamo area of Ilorin where they seized 42 bags of skunk that weighed 387.40kg.
A total of 157,519 bottles of codeine syrup were also discovered in a container at the Apapa port in Lagos during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA, Customs and other security agencies on Friday.
In the same vein, a total of 118.1kg skunk was seized from the duo of Dauda Kareem and Saheed Obisesan at Fadeyi area of Mushin Lagos on Friday with not less than 116kg of same substance also recovered from a warehouse at new market area of Enugu, Enugu state same day.
On Thursday 15th of January, the NDLEA operatives arrested two suspects: Zaharadeen Yahaya, 25, and Sanusi Maman, 23, along Onitsha -Asaba expressway, Delta state.
They were apprehended with 410,800 pills of tramadol, 84.2 litres of codeine syrup, 82,250 tablets of diazepam, 900 tabs of swinol, and 65 pills of Molly.
Also on Thursday, 33-year-old Adetunji Ahmed Abayomi, 33, was nabbed at Moniya, Ibadan, with 321 litres of skuchies, and 2.5kg Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis, while Rasheed Ajao, 28, was caught same day at Odo-Ona, Ibadan, in possession of 5.4kg Scottish Loud; 1.696kg skunk and 2.5kg Colorado.
According to the Babafemi, the total weight of the illicit substance seized from the duo stood at 9.696 kilograms.
In another raid at Agbeni area of the Oyo state capital on Saturday, 52,430 pills of tramadol and bromazepam were recovered from the store of one Orji Edwin who is currently at large.
Meanwhile, a 26-year-old ex-convict, Gaddafi Ammani, was again arrested with various quantities of skunk and exol-5 pills along his accomplice Ahmed Sani, 32, at Nassarawa GRA, Ringim LGA Jigawa state on Saturday 17th January.
Before Gaddafi’s arrest, he attempted to escape by climbing the roofs of many houses.
He was armed with a machete which he used to threaten NDLEA operatives and even inflicted injury on one of the officers.