Illicit Drugs: NDLEA Arrests Sexagenarian, Vigilance Commander, Others

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a sexagenarian in possession of 57kg of Indian hemp.

The 67-year-old man was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Thursday, February 15, 2024, at Magbon in Ogun State.

Other items seized from the grand father were 2,700 pills of tramadol and 231 bottles of Codeine syrup.

NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in Abuja that operatives also raided a drug joint in Benin on Tuesday, February 13.

This, he noted led to the arrest of a 24-year-old sales girl, just as assorted illicit drugs were recovered from the suspect.

He added that a follow-up operation on Wednesday, February 14, also facilitated the arrest of the owner of the joint, a 36-year-old commander of a vigilance group in the area.

Babafemi hinted that NDLEA operatives recovered 179kg of Indian hemp in Badagry, Lagos State on Wednesday, while they arrested a 25-year-old lady in Bagga, Borno, who was in possession of cocaine and heroin.

He informed that a 26-year-old and a 22-year-old male suspect were also nabbed with quantities of cocaine and heroin at Meri and Babban Layi areas of Maiduguri, respectively.

The agency also impounded about 44,820 pills of illicit psychotropic drugs enroute Zamfara by a 25-year-old and a 54-year-old on Jegga-Sokoto road in Kebbi.

NDLEA also arrested a 35-year-old farmer on his farmland where he grows tomatoes and Indian hemp at Birnin Yero in Igabi Local Government Area of Kaduna state.

He disclosed that two suspects were arrested with 99 blocks of Indian hemp in a commercial bus while travelling from Lagos to Kano.

The drugs, which weighed 37kg were intercepted on Kwali-Gwagwalada Expressway in the FCT on Monday, February 19.

Babafemi hinted that another suspect was arrested at Upper Iweka area of Onitsha, Anambra with 483 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup concealed in two 50 litre kegs.

He said that a follow-up operation led to the arrest of the actual owner of the syrup.

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