The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman, along the Zaria–Kano expressway in Kaduna State.

The female ammunition supplier was arrested with 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her handbag on Wednesday, January 3.

The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, January 7.

Babafemi noted that the woman was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina State when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna State command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.

He added that the military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday, January 2, transferred a suspect 37-year-old suspect, Francis Suru, and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos State Command of the NDLEA.

“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on 12th December 2023 close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island.

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“Some armed escorts however resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation, a development which attracted soldiers from the cantonment, who eventually intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the agency,” the NDLEA spokesman disclosed.

Babafemi said a 27-year-old female drug trafficker, Queen Onyema, was arrested on Saturday, January 6, in a commercial bus enroute Abuja along the Okene-Lokoja expressway with 12 compressed blocks of cannabis weighing 4.6kg and 0.046kg designer drugs concealed in an Indomie carton.

He stated that another 20-year-old suspect, Mubarak Sani, was nabbed at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano on Monday, January 1, with 445.9k kilograms of the same psychoactive substance.

Commending the anti-narcotic officers for the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their drug demand reduction as well as drug supply reduction efforts in the New Year.

The Star