Crimes

VIDEO: NDLEA uncovers underground drug bunk in Delta building

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have stormed the home of a drug kingpin, Okrika Kingsley Ozioma, at Usiefurum in Ughelli South Local Government Area of Delta State and uncovered an underground drug bunk in a three-bedroom bungalow building owned by the suspect who is now on the run.

No fewer than 17.6kgs of Cannabis Sativa were recovered from the underground drug bunk in addition to a 2003 Silver Golf car with registration number Lagos KJA 572 AZ used for the distribution of drugs within and outside Warri, Delta State.

The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement made available to The Star on Sunday.

Babafemi said the anti-narcotic officers, on Friday, intercepted a Honda Ridgeline vehicle with Reg No BWR 699 CV loaded with 29 bags of Cannabis Sativa weighing 319kgs in Edo State.

He stated that the 32-year-old driver of the vehicle, Alfred Vratombo, was arrested with fake police uniforms, which he was using to deceive security agents on the road.

He revealed that the NDLEA operatives also intercepted a truck and a bus conveying 113 jumbo bags of Cannabis Sativa weighing 4,802.84 kilograms around the VGC estate area of Ajah, Lagos State.

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The NDLEA spokesperson noted that three suspects, Taofeek Yusuf, Ifeanyi Okorie, and Israel Nwachukwu, were arrested in connection with the seizure.

Babafemi disclosed that an attempt by a 29-year-old drug dealer, Chucks Kalu, to smuggle into Kano 26kgs of Cannabis concealed inside packs of blenders was thwarted by the operatives of the anti-drug agency who intercepted the consignment along Abuja-Kaduna expressway and later arrested him in a follow-up operation in Kano State.

The NDLE spokesman added that another 42-year-old suspect, Rabilu Sa’ad Abubakar, was arrested in a follow-up operation in Kano, following the seizure of his consignment – 1,980 bottles of Cough syrup with codeine concealed inside cartons – along the Abuja-Kaduna expressway.

He revealed that the NDLEA operatives, on Saturday, arrested a 40-year-old man, Muhammed Ahmed, with 288 blocks of Cannabis Sativa weighing 244.5Kg in the Darazo area of Bauchi State.

Babafemi added that a 40-year-old man, Yusuf Ayinde, was also arrested with 50.4kgs cannabis in his residence at Idi-Ose via Amuloko, Ona-Ara LGA of Oyo State on Saturday.

Commending the officers for their commitment and vigilance leading to the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), urged them and their compatriots across other formations to continue to surpass their past records of achievements.

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Segun Ojo

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