Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a vigilante Commander and a grandpa for being in possession of huge quantities of illicit drugs.
While the vigilante Commander was nabbed in Edo State, the grandpa was arrested in Ogun State.
A statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday confirmed the development.
Babafemi said in Edo State, NDLEA officers on February 20 raided a drug joint under powerline, off Etete Road, GRA, Benin City, where they arrested a sales girl, Jessica Destiny, 24, and recovered assorted illicit drugs.
A follow up operation the following day led to the arrest of the owner of the joint, 36-year-old Ibrahim Sani, who is the Commander, Arewa Association Vigilantes in the area.
While a consignment of 179kg cannabis was recovered by operatives at Badagry Waterside, Lagos on February 21, a 67-year-old grandpa, Rafiu Ogunro, was nabbed on February 22 at Magbon, Ogun State with 57kg cannabis, 2,700 pills of tramadol, and 231 bottles of Codeine syrup, weighing 2.31 litres.
In Borno State, a 25-year-old lady, Zara Mele, was arrested with quantities of cocaine and heroin at Baga checkpoint on February 20,while Usman Shuaibu, 26, and Mohammed Lawan, 22, were also nabbed with quantities of the same class A drug at Meri and Babban Layi areas of Maiduguri the same day respectively.
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No less than 44,820 pills of opioids being taken to Zamfara state by Tasiu Mohammed, 25, and Abubakar Tanko, 54, were intercepted along Jega-Sokoto Riad by NDLEA officers in Kebbi State, while a farmer, Ali Abdulhamid, 35, was arrested on his farm where he grows tomatoes and some stems of cannabis sativa weighing 73 kilograms at Bakin Kasuwa village, Birnin Yero area of Igabi Local Government Area, Kaduna State.
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