The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 32-year-old notorious drug dealer and ex-convict, Prince Ikechukwu Uzoma, with 1kg of skunk in the Mubi area of Adamawa State.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure via a statement issued on Sunday, May 21.
Babafemi disclosed that Uzoma, who was nabbed by the NDLEA officers on Monday, May 15, had twice been arrested in the past and convicted for the same offence.
He noted that the suspect was in 2017 sentenced to six months imprisonment and again sent to two years in jail in 2019.
The NDLEA spokesman added that a 27-year-old trans-border trafficker, Faisal Mohammed, was also arrested in Mubi Wednesday, May 17, following the interception of a truck from Onitsha, Anambra State, where a total of 2,376 sachets of tramadol comprising 23,760 pills were found concealed in three blue rubber Jerrycans which were hidden underneath the body part of the trailer.
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Babafemi said the suspect admitted the opioid was to be taken to Cameroon.
He added that two suspects – Osas Susan, 35, and Thomas Biodun, 23 – were arrested with 2.13kg cannabis at Igbon, Gambari in Ogbomoso North Local Government Area of Oyo State, while Idris Muhammed, 55, was nabbed with 4,500 pills of tramadol when a commercial bus conveying him and other passengers was stopped and searched along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
“While 552kg cannabis was recovered from a warehouse in a bush when operatives stormed and destroyed 1.5 hectares of cannabis farm in Uhodoua forest, Esan South East LGA, Edo state, 10 suspects were arrested with a total of 5.587kg cannabis sativa, 144.4grams of methamphetamine and 48, 260 capsules of tramadol in different parts of Onitsha, Anambra state on Friday 19th May,” the NDLEA spokesperson stated.
Reacting, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the anti-narcotic officers for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa also charged the NDLEA officers across the country not to rest on their oars.
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