The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested no fewer than five women for alleged drug trafficking at the Seme border.

The suspected cross-border female drug traffickers were apprehended at the Seme border by the operatives of a Special Operations Unit in NDLEA while on their way back to Lagos from Ghana.

The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, made this known via a statement on Sunday, August 25, 2024.

Babafemi said the leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Olaribigbe Bashirat Feyisara, had been under NDLEA radar before being tracked and arrested on Wednesday, August 21, along with other members of her gang – Abogun Fatimah Ladidi, Osibeluwo Tolulope Oluwaseun, Akanni Balikis Oluwatoyin, and Ajetumobi Amudalat.

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He stated that at the point of the women’s arrest at the Seme border, a total of 14 packs of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 6.97kg, were recovered from hidden parts of their bodies.

He added that a suspect, Godwill Davidson, was arrested with 3,834 bottles of codeine syrup, 5,200 pills of Co-Codamol, and 11, 880 tablets of Rohypnol in the Mushin area of Lagos State on Wednesday, August 21.

Babafemi noted that another 23-year-old suspect, Yahaya Ibrahim, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway in Kogi State the same day with 42,000 pills of tramadol coming from Asaba in Delta State en route Potiskum in Yobe State.

Commending the anti-narcotic officers for the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), also enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the agency.

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