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Uncovers meth, skunk in soles of ladies’ high heel shoes as court sentences kingpin to 5 years imprisonment in Lagos

Fresh attempts to export various quantities of methamphetamine and skunk by of some transnational drug trafficking organisations through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja and courier companies in Lagos have again been thwarted by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who intercepted the illicit drug consignments concealed in different items.

At the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 12th September intercepted an intending enger going to Oman, Ugwu Peter Tochukwu, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight. Upon a thorough search of his luggage, 7.50 kilograms of skunk were discovered concealed inside crayfish mixed with dry bitter leaf.

In the same vein, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations attached to some courier companies also intercepted Dubai-bound 2.9 kilograms of skunk and 14 grams of methamphetamine concealed in bags of semovita and soles of ladies’ high heel shoes respectively.

In Imo state, operatives on patrol along Aba-Owerri expressway on Wednesday 13th September intercepted five pregnant teenage girls suspected to be victims of child trafficking used as baby factory. They were picked up while being relocated from their hideout in Naze area of Owerri to Ikenegbu area of the state capital.

The victims include: Chioma Emmanuel, 15; Uma Faith, 15; Divine Adimonye, 17; Opara Gift, 15; and Amarachi Mbata, 16. In their statements, they claimed they didn’t know the men who impregnated them. The Imo state command of the Agency has since been directed to hand them over to the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons, NAPTIP, for further investigations.

While two suspects: Moses Akowe, 32, and Sunday Gabriel, 31, were arrested with 227.1kgs of cannabis on Tuesday 11th September at Ikebe village, Ankpa LGA, Kogi state, a female suspect, Bilikisu Salako, 35, was nabbed with 108kgs of same substance on Saturday 16th September in Ifo area of Ogun state.

A total of 100 blocks of cannabis weighing 55kgs and 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup seized from the duo of Salisu Murtala and Shafi’u Dahiru on Tuesday 11th September along Abuja road have been traced to two other suspects: Muntari Nasiru and Yusuf Ali who were arrested in follow up operations in Kano.

In FCT Abuja, a 27-year-old Kingsley Chimaobi was arrested with 6,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup along Lokogoma-Abuja road on Tuesday 11th September.

Meanwhile, a Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday 13th September sentenced to five years imprisonment a drug dealer, Segun Odeyemi for trafficking and dealing in 3,842 kilograms of skunk. He was arrested on Saturday 1st July while conveying 89 jumbo bags of the illicit substance in his truck around Eleganza area of Ajah, Lekki. He was subsequently charged in suit number FHC/L/388C/2023 presided over by Justice Akintayo Aluko.

Across the country, various commands of the Agency continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitization activities in the past week taking advocacy messages to the stakeholders. Instances of this include, WADA advocacy visit to the head of Kadiria Islamic Sect of Africa, Sheikh Qaribullah Nasiru Kabara, in Kano; WADA sensitisation lecture for men and officers of Nigerian Army, Sobi barracks, Ilorin; lecture for Muslim community in Kaduna; WADA sensitisation lecture at Enugu State College of Health and Technology, Oji- River; advocacy lecture for of Ram Sellers Association, Osogbo as well as officers and men of the Nigerian Navy School of Music, Ota, Ogun state, among others.

While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Imo, Kaduna, Ogun, Kogi, FCT and Lagos Commands as well as those of DOGI for intensifying their drug control efforts, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) equally applauded the commitment of all the commands across the country to work with other stakeholders to take the WADA sensitization lectures and advocacy messages to the communities, schools, worship centres, work places and traditional institutions. He charged them not to relent.

Femi Babafemi
Director, Media & Advocacy
NDLEA Headquarters Abuja
Sunday 17th September 2023

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Seems more than meets the eye...looking more like a Drug peddling racket.

See that one on singlet posing like it's a selfie pic ! SMH.

hemartins:
I wonder how much would be paid to do this.

Sunofgod:
Don't they have anything better to do

Funnily they see no other income legit means most of them even justify their illicit peddling.
Even some aboki peddle this drugs roadsides in streets.

Nursepepeye:
this NDLEÀ are very useless all the prominent Hausa children openly buy and sell hard drugs even Cocaine at Zone 4 in Abuja everybody knows about it. NDLEA never raid Zone 4 in Abuja for ones but you will see them in highway harassing innocent travellers

Very unprofessional lots.



Wittyness.

Since no death penalty, then we will keep seeing cases like dis...
The fear of death penalty is what is making China,
Indonesia and Malaysia to have reduced cases like this....

These Hoebee-dients keep bringing shame upon themselves.

This is serious
The alarming rate of drug usage and peddling is becoming something else

I wonder how much would be paid to do this.

Will Govt provide jobs?

We need to increase the punishment for drug peddling!

See pregnant ladies!

Killers of Morbad....

Nemesis will soon catch up with you guys

Don't they have anything better to do

Na dem
Ibo Amaka

Marian's mother.

Nothing good can come from the yeast.

And I mean this with the utmost sincerity.

15 years of age with belle, Nigeria needs very hard laws for this nonsense. Me as guyman , am over 22 years before I start one corner dance🫣. What is happening in my blessed Country. Anyone in dose girls case most be jailed

Say no to drugs

Drugs, baby factories is their trade mark.

Ndi Ego Obala

What do you expect after drinking Hero beer their Pandora fraud built for them

Shameful

T

TemplarLandry:
These Hoebee-dients keep bringing shame upon themselves.

I believe you didn't see the names of your people there right

Omo, things dey hard day by day oh.

Na wa

Piggyyeaster2:
Na dem
Ibo Amaka

A female suspect, Bilikisu Salako, 35, was nabbed with 108kgs of same substance on Saturday 16th September in Ifo area of Ogun state.

abdeefggh:
Drugs, baby factories is their trade mark.

Read the report well
A female suspect, Bilikisu Salako, 35, was nabbed with 108kgs of same substance on Saturday 16th September in Ifo area of Ogun state.

Meanwhile check the headlines

Bushbama:
African "NATO" has been launched.

🇳🇪🇲🇱🇧🇫 Mali, Burkina Faso, Niger sign charter to create defense alliance

An attack on the sovereignty or territorial integrity of one or more parties to the charter will be regarded as aggression against the other parties, the document read, which binds the signatories to assist one another, including militarily, in the event of an attack on any one of them.

Soon this alliance can be expanded with the Central African Republic and Chad.

Stop derailing

Ohu