The seizures, in the last one week, showed that cannabis sativa hidden in a petrol station was seized by operatives.
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Lt. Empire Okorie, the Base Intelligence Officer, representing FOB Commanding, Navy Captain Aiwuyor Adams-Aliu made this public.
Adams-Aliu explained that the NDLEA operatives seized the cannabis on Thursday at Moba community in Badagry.
In Sokoto, the Federal High Court in the state capital presided over by Justice Ahmad Mahmud has sentenced an acting district head, Alhaji Umar Mohammed, aka Dan Bala, to five and a half years in jail on four count charges of possession and dealing in 436.38kgs cannabis and 7kg psychotropic drugs brought against him by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in October 2022.
In the FCT, operatives on Saturday 15th October stormed a village known as Chukuku, which is about 10 kilometers from Gwagwalada where they raided a large cannabis warehouse. A total of 510 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 5, 640kgs were recovered from the store and a nursing mother in charge, Saadatu Abdullahi, 35, was arrested.
This is contained in a statement signed by Maj.Olaniyi Osoba ,the Divison’s spokesperson, Friday.
Leading other top officials of NDLEA, other security agencies and members of the public in the burning of heaps of the illicit drugs, Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) said the exercise is a strong message to drug barons and cartels that they’ll continue to lose their huge investments in the criminal trade if they fail to back out and look for other legitimate businesses.
Delivering judgment, Justice Uche Agomoh, said she convicted and sentenced Abubakar based on the evidence before her.
This is contained in a statement by the Spokesman of the command, SP Abdullahi Haruna-Kiyawa, on Saturday in Kano.
The anti-drug agency said that Taiwo would be arraigned before Justice Ayokunke Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos, on April 8.
Bogoro held that the community service should commence after the convict had served the six months jail term.
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The Command also arrested 32 other suspects for various offences in the state from January to date.
This was revealed in a statement issued by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
The defendant, who is unemployed, is standing trial before Justice Yellin Bogoro.
This was contained in a statement by the Police Public Relations Officer in the FCT, DSP Josephine Adeh, in Abuja.
The 27-year-old Chioma Eze was arrested on Friday 17th Dec when operatives raided her store and home in Ojo area of Lagos while another suspect, Michael Oroke was also nabbed with 29kg of the illicit drug in the same location.
A native of Nike in Enugu North Local Government Area of Enugu state, Gabriel was arrested on Friday 26th November during an outward clearance of Turkish Airline at the boarding screening area of the airport enroute Abuja-Istanbul-Madrid.
This was disclosed by the NDLEA’s Director of Advocacy and Media, Femi Babafemi, in a statement he issued on Sunday.
Eze was charged by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on one count.
Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the agency disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin.