Michael Olugbode in Abuja
Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted a bootleg drug consignment hid within the engine compartment of an interstate industrial bus simply as two grandfathers had been taken into custody over drug trafficking.
An announcement yesterday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics company, Femi Babafemi, mentioned that no fewer than 5.2 kilogrammes of hashish sativa and opioids had been found final Thursday within the engine of the bus marked VDY 187 XA alongside Gbongan – Ibadan street, Osun state by NDLEA officers on cease and search operation on the freeway.
He mentioned the bus driver, Iorliam Dominic, 35, who took duty for the concealment has been taken into custody for additional investigation.
Babafemi mentioned final Wednesday, a 26-year-old girl, Obasanmi Iyanu, who produces and distributes “skuchies” was arrested throughout a raid on her hideout in Osogbo, the Osun state capital, throughout which a minimum of, 16.5 litres of the illicit substance and completely different portions of molly and hashish had been recovered from her through the raid.
He acknowledged that NDLEA operatives in Borno state have arrested two grandfathers, a 70-year-old Mallam Mai Gemu Adam and 65-year-old Yamama Musa for drug trafficking.
He mentioned they had been arrested on Saturday together with 24-year-old Abubakar Ya’u and Babagana Ali, 28, in Maiduguri and Gamboru-Ngala respectively whereas 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection had been recovered from them.
He revealed that on the identical day, operatives in neighbouring Yobe State at Geidam intercepted a Golf 3 salon automobile heading to Gagamari in Niger republic, the place the occupant, Alhaji Mala Tijjani, 28, was to ship 40 blocks of hashish weighing 24.5 kilogrammes to a different supplier.
Additionally 42 cartons containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilogrammes, he mentioned, had been recovered from a driver, Mutari Ya’u, 29, at Katsina street, Kaduna final Tuesday.
In Kano state, Nura Yusuf, 35, was arrested with 62 kilogrammes hashish at Gadar Tamburawa space, the place Abubakar Sani, 40, was additionally nabbed with 244 bottles of codeine syrup, whereas Mohammad Alkali, 28, was discovered with 49,800 drugs of tramadol alongside Kano-Maiduguri street, final Thursday.
Apart from, NDLEA operatives in Lagos state final Wednesday arrested Aba Thomas at Igbo Elerin space of the state the place 84 litres of skuchies, 1.1 litres of codeine syrup, 4 kilogrammes hashish sativa, and 800 tablets of tramadol 225mg had been seized from him.
“In Abuja, no fewer than eight suspects had been arrested final Friday the place NDLEA officers raided the infamous Karu abattoir drug joint within the metropolis FCT with 51.3 kilogrammes hashish recovered from them.
“These arrested embody: Buhari Muhammadu; Jamilu Muhammed; Abubakar Wappa; Yahaya Tasiu; Ezekiel Mulanda; Abba Haruna; Habibu Umar and Shamsu Lawali.
“In Plateau state, two suspects: Pam Thomas, 45, and Stephen Nyam, 38, had been on Monday arrested with hashish weighing 611.428kg at Zawan, Jos South, whereas in Kogi state, NDLEA officers intercepted a industrial J5 bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra state to Zaria, Kaduna state on Wednesday March 6, alongside Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway the place a complete of 8,580 drugs of tramadol and exol-5 had been seized from a suspect, Yusuf Abdullahi, 40.
“In Enugu state, operatives final Tuesday raided some locked-up outlets on the new market in Enugu metropolitan space the place 371.42 kilogrammes hashish and 9.49 grammes of methamphetamine had been recovered,” he added.
