NDLEA nabs pregnant drug dealer, others

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 25-year-old pregnant woman identified as Haruna Favour with 82 pinches of methamphetamine in Auchi, Edo state.

Favour, who was arrested on Friday, was also arrested with various quantities of Loud, Arizona, and Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup.

The Director of Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi confirmed the arrest on Sunday.

In Gombe, One Hundred and Nineteen Thousand (119,000) tablets and capsules of tramadol, D5, and Exol5 were also recovered from two drug dealers, Nasiru Abubakar, 22, and Umaru Bayero a.k.a Hadiza.

They were recovered when NDLEA operatives raided their stores at the Gombe main market on Tuesday 6th Sept.

In Kogi, a suspect, Paul Ali, 47, was arrested along the Okene-Abuja highway with 1,404 bottles of Codeine based syrup weighing 190.94kg and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection coming from Onitsha to Sokoto.

A follow-up operation in Sokoto has also led to the arrest of the receiver of the consignment on Tuesday 6th Sept.

A raid at the cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo LGA, Ondo State has led to the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25; and Obinna Okechukwu, 35, where sixteen (16) bags of the illicit substance weighing 179.5kg were seized from them.

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) in his reaction to the arrests and seizures, commended the officers for their resilience.

He charged them and their compatriots in other commands to remain focussed and vigilant in their areas of responsibility.