Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency at the Gate C Departure Hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos Stateon Friday arrested a passenger, Yahaya Danjuma Oturah, while attempting to export 4,000 pills of tramadol 225mg to Malpensa, Italy on an Ethiopian Airline flight.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement issued on Sunday.
Babafemi said the psychoactive substance was found concealed in women’s clothes and granulated melon packed in the suspect’s backpack and another bag containing food items.
In his statement, Oturah, who is a frequent flyer, confessed he was hired to courier the drug for 700 Euros on successful delivery of the consignment in Italy.
In Bayelsa State, NDLEA operatives on April 24 arrested 28-year-old Jennifer Iliya at Amarata area of Yenagoa for producing and distributing cakes laced with illicit drugs, especially cannabis sativa.
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At the time of her arrest, a substantial number of the drugged cakes weighing 1.5kg were recovered from her.
A 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, 30, had been arrested on March 10, 2024 by NDLEA operatives in Yenagoa for a similar offence.
Two suspects: Joseph Dadik, 47, and Bensha Yari, 32, were arrested with 24,180 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 135.5 kilograms at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, while Adamu Umar, 18, was nabbed with 20.700kg cannabis when his house in Shuware area of Mubi, Adamawa State was raided on April 26.
No less than 310.7kg cannabis was recovered on April 25 when NDLEA operatives raided parts of Mushin in Lagos State.
While 300kg was seized at Olatunji Street, Mushin, 10.7kg of the same substance was retrieved from two suspects: Tijani Wasiu and Suleiman Aisha, at Anifowose, Mushin.
While Stanley Chukwudi, 43, was arrested with 5,900 ampoules of pentazocine injection at Sabon Gari area of Kano State on April 25, a couple, Fredrick Odion, 53, and Gladys Odion, 52, were nabbed with 50kg cannabis at Iruekpen, Esan West LGA of Edo State by NDLEA officers on April 24.
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