The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two drug consignments consisting of ecstasy and skunk going to the United Arab Emirates.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said in
a statement on Sunday in Abuja that NDLEA officers attached to courier
companies made the interception.
Babafemi said that the pills of ecstasy were
concealed in a gold colour wedding gown, adding that the skunk was hidden in a
microcontroller.
This is even as a 400-level Marine
Engineering student at the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa state,
Kelvin Ogenedoro, has been arrested for dealing in 600 grams of skunk.
Babafemi said that the suspect was nabbed at
the university’s gate in a follow-up operation following the interception of
the consignment in a commercial bus along Tombia-Amassoma road.
In another development, in Adamawa State, a
notorious drug dealer, Ishaku Emzor (aka Lalas) who was convicted and sentenced
to 15 years imprisonment in 2010 for drug offences, was on Thursday 20th April
arrested for drug dealing.
Babafemi said that he was arrested at Hayin
Gada, Imburu Numan LGA where he went to supply 1.650kg of cannabis to an undercover
operative.
“His Yellow Press Cub motorcycle used for
supplying illicit drugs was recovered from him at the point of arrest.
“Also, a cash of N78,120 suspected to proceed of the illegal business was also seized from him.
“On the same day in Kaduna, operatives acting
on credible intelligence intercepted a truck conveying 110 bags and 200
compressed blocks of cannabis sativa in Zaria.
“The drugs were weighing 1,223kg while the
truck driver, Adekunle Olanrewaju, 32, and his assistant, Tunde Jamiu, 20, were
arrested,” he said.
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