28th May, 2023
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has smashed a suspected terrorist, Musa Muhammadu, conveying a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices, IEDs to bandits’ camp in Niger State.
A statement issued by NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Sunday said the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has since ordered the immediate transfer of a suspect caught with the explosives on Monday 22nd May along Wawa road, Kainji, Niger state to the military.
He said in Delta state, NDLEA operatives supported by men drawn from the Nigerian Army, NSCDC and the Police on Wednesday 24th May raided the notorious Abbi town, Ndokwa West LGA where three suspects: Eunice Eneh, 52; Animan Ifeoma, 26, and Chuks Webema Dennis, 35, were arrested with a total of 343.9kg cannabis recovered from them.
“A similar mop up operation in Bayelsa has led to the arrest of a wanted suspect, Ozoemena Egbochue, 38, at the Swali market in Yenagoa on Monday 22nd May following the earlier arrest of his sales boy, Morgan Eredeowei with 11,748 pills of tramadol and diazepam,” he said.
Babafemi added that while commending the officers and men of the Agency across all Commands nationwide for their professionalism and synergy with other law enforcement agencies in the mop up operation, Marwa urged them to sustain the offensive action even after the Monday 29th May handover ceremonies.