Kabir Tsakuwa, FCT Commandant of the agency disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Wednesday in Abuja.
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In Lagos, anti-narcotics officers who have been on the trail of 48-year-old Aro Aderinde for weeks arrested him on Sunday 16th October over his involvement in the export of 3,149kgs cannabis sativa concealed in coconut fibres via container number MSKU 1820587. In the same vein, two women: Hauwawu Bashiru and Basirat Adebisi Yahaya linked to the attempt to export 90 kilograms of methamphetamine through Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong of Promise of Zion Church, Oron, Akwa Ibom state, were equally arrested in Lagos and moved to Uyo to face charges along with the clergyman. Pastor Effiong was earlier arrested on Saturday 6th August.
The state Commander, Umar Adoro, told the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Kaduna that the suspects were arrested in different locations in the state between Oct. 6 and Oct. 16.
In Delta, one Christian Onah,42, was arrested at Isele- Azagba junction with 23,160 tablets of Swinol and 66,000 tablets of Rohypnol, both weighing 71.6kg while conveying the drugs from Benin, Edo to Onitsha, Anambra state. In another arrest, a commercial vehicle from Onitsha going to Ibadan, Oyo state was intercepted at Abraka junction, Asaba on Wednesday 2nd March with 78,000 capsules of Tramadol; 5,000 tablets of Diazepam and 97,500 tablets of Exol-5, while a suspect, Olaniyan Sunday, 42, was arrested. At least, a female suspect, Patricia Saduwa, 42, was arrested with 233.7kg cannabis during a raid operation in Orogun community close to Abbi town in Kwale LGA, Delta State on Friday 4th March. The raid of another house in the community same day led to the seizure of 123.7kg cannabis while the owner is still at large.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had traced the wanted drug dealer, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, on Sunday 15th August, 2021, to a popular Pentecostal church in Ojodu Berger, where they arrested him soon after he stepped out of the church service.
The NDLEA Commander in the FCT, Lawan Hamisu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
The defendant was arraigned before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo on four counts bordering on trafficking in Cannabis (Hemp) Diazepam, Rophynol and Tramadol.
The defendant is standing trial before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo on four counts bordering on trafficking in Cannabis, Diazepam, Rophynol and Tramadol.