The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a businesswoman, Onyinye Nwoke, for planting cannabis at her residence in Abuja.

The 38-year-old businesswoman was arrested following a raid at her residence, House 56 Aldenco Estate, Galadimawa in Abuja where the NDLEA operatives uprooted fresh stems of cannabis plants grown at the backyard of the house.

This was disclosed via a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.

Babafemi noted that the uprooted plants weighed 18.4kgs while 800grams of cannabis seeds were also recovered from the house.

He added that the troops of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army handed over to the Lagos command of the NDLEA 792 blocks of cannabis sativa smuggled from the Volta region of Ghana into Ogun State.

He said the drugs were intercepted at a checkpoint along the Ilaro-Benin Republic border.

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Babafemi further stated that in Niger State, the NDLEA operatives, on Thursday, intercepted a truck conveying animal feeds from Lagos to Kaduna with 449 compressed blocks and 111 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 1,531kg belonging to a dealer in Zaria.

The anti-drug agency spokesperson said drug consignment was loaded into the truck in Akure, Ondo State, adding that the truck driver, Yahaya Sani, his assistant Samaila Rabiu, his motor boy Bilal Ibrahim, representative of the cannabis owner, Awolu Isyaku, and a passenger Mustapha Abdulrahman were all arrested.

He noted that the NDLEA operatives also intercepted 811,000 tablets of Tramadol, Diazepam, and Exol 5 weighing 150kg in a vehicle loaded in Onitsha, Anambra State at the Ahmadu-Kafi area of Gombe State.

“In Sokoto, operatives on Saturday 3rd September intercepted a commercial bus from which two five CD loader players were recovered along Sokoto-Bodinga road. Upon search, 5.5kgs of cannabis were discovered inside the CD players and the owner, Nasiru Ibrahim arrested while in another bus, a suspected bandit Sani Ibrahim, 37 was arrested with some ammunition and cannabis sativa along Kware road,” Babafemi added.

Speaking on the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the anti-drug agency officers just as he charged them and their compatriots across Nigeria to intensify the heat on drug cartels in the country while balancing their efforts on supply reduction with drug demand reduction activities.

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