Seizes 465kg of skunk in Ondo
Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested two ladies, Chioma Afam and Peace Chidinma Caleb wore hijabs and multiple identities to evade security scrutiny.
Afam 36 and Caleb 22 were arrested on Saturday July 17, 2021 in Benue State.
They were caught while trying to smuggle a total of 296,000 tablets of Diazepam and Exol-5 from Onitsha, Anambra state to Gombe state.
According to the spokesman of the anti narcotics agency in Nigeria, Femi Babafemi, the suspects who use multiple names such as Amina, Uzoamaka and Ifunaya to cover their nefarious activities were arrested during routine checks and profiling of inward vehicles into Makurdi, the Benue state capital.
Babafemi added, “the vehicle in which the suspects were coming from Onitsha, Anambra State was intercepted along Makurdi – Alliade road while heading to Gombe State via Makurdi.
“A search of their vehicle led to the discovery of 43kilograms of Diazepam and 33kg of Exol-5, both weighing 76 kilogrammes with a total of Two Hundred and Ninety Six Thousand (296,000) tablets packed in four large ‘Ghana must go’ bags.:
Futher information revealed that curiously, the two interstate drug traffickers have rebuffed efforts to take pictures with the exhibits without wearing their hijab.
In similar development, the Ondo State command of the Agency on Sunday July 18, 2021 intercepted one Olu Ameh, a commercial motorcycle rider with 465 kilograms of cannabis sativa along Ijagba-Ute road in Ose local government area of the state.
The illicit substance was said to have been bought from one Joseph in Ago-Akure, Akure North LGA and was being conveyed to the buyer, a certain Egbonwon at Ijagba village in Ose LGA.
Reacting to the two seizures and arrests, Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA Brigadier Muhammed Marwa Retired have commended the commanders, officers and men of the Benue and Ondo State Commands of the Agency for their efforts to ensure that no illicit substance is allowed to pass through their areas of responsibility under whatever guise or cover to destroy the lives of innocent Nigerians in other parts of the country.
Marwa therefore charged them to remain vigilant at all times.
“For us in NDLEA, a kilogram of illicit drug seized by our gallant and courageous officers across the country is a kilogram less what is available on the streets and in our communities and that is why we’ll continue to encourage all our officers and men to continue to give their best in our pursuit of the mandate President Muhammadu Buhari has given us”, Gen. Marwa stated on Wednesday in Abuja.
