The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma in Auchi, Edo state, for operating an online catering service known as ‘Omachi’s kitchen’, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits.
A press statement by the Director Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Abuja, Mr. Femi Babafemi said “the arrests followed an intelligence and surveillance by narcotic officers of the Edo state Command of the Agency on Saturday June 19, 2021, who stormed her operational base at No.1 Winners Way, Auchi, where she was arrested and at least 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis sativa were recovered.
“Chioma, 26, who is a graduate of medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital. She has confessed to baking the cookies with skunk in her statement while under interrogation.”
Other arrests
In the same vein, a 30-year-old Emmanuel Ehiramhen, of No. 10 Egan Street Ekpoma, has been arrested by officers of the Edo Command of the Agency for dealing in crack cocaine.
Also, NDLEA operatives in Kwara State have arrested a 52-year-old ex-Soldier, Ibrahim Musa with 12.167 kg of Arizona (cannabis sativa), 4g of Cocaine and 25g of flunitrazepam.
The suspect was apprehended on Thursday June 17, 2021 at Oke-Odo, Tanke area of Ilorin metropolis when he arrived from Lagos to supply his customers.
The statement said “Sergeant Ibrahim Musa who worked in the maintenance department at Abati Army Barracks, Lagos from where he was deployed to 117 Battalion in Chibok, Borno State before he deserted the Army had arrived Ilorin in company of his wife, Basirat Musa in his Honda Accord car with registration number JJ 707 BL Lagos with the seized exhibit. He was however arrested at the point of delivery by operatives of Kwara State Command of the Agency.”
Reacting to the arrests, Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has commended the Edo and Kwara state Commands of the Agency for their vigilance and commitment to the goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of illicit drug trafficking and abuse.
He charged the Commanders, officers and men of the two Commands and their counterparts across the country not to relent in the discharge of their responsibilities while assuring them that he’ll continue to make their welfare a priority.
Nneka Ukachukwu
