The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested a serving officer of a law enforcement agency, Popoola Abayomi for selling assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun state.
A press statement by the Director Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Abuja Mr Femi Babafemi said, “the drug dealer who serves in the Lagos state Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday 15th June, 2021 after days of surveillance at his wife’s shop used as his sales point in Camp area of Abeokuta, the Ogun State Capital.”
It said, “one of his salesmen, a motorcycle rider known as Ogah was trailed to the location at about 8pm and arrested with six pinches of Colorado weighing 1.17grams before Popoola who has been on the Agencys watch list was nabbed with different illicit drugs including codeine -17 bottles, cannabis -22.26grams; tramadol 230 -98grams, 61 tablets of flunitrazepam -23.72grams, 113 tablets of molly -48.16grams and sex drops -43.92grams.”
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In the same vein, “one Adelodun Kamaldeen has also been arrested by operatives of the Oyo state Command of the Agency at General Area, Ilorin, Kwara State following the interception of a parcel containing cocaine and heroin that weighed 10.5grams and 4.8grams respectively on 13th June.”
The following day, “two ladies, Mary Peter, 40, and Mercy Oladele, 39, were arrested at Total Garden, Ibadan when NDLEA operatives acting on a tip-off, intercepted their commercial micra car. The two women were arrested with seven bags of cannabis weighing 77.23kg brought in from Ogbese, Ondo State, to supply a man they simply identified as Alhaji.”
On Friday 18th June, “operatives of the Oyo state Command of the NDLEA acting on intelligence also raided the residence of one Alhaji Faruq at Elebu area, Akala expressway, Oluyole LGA, Ibadan, where they recovered 43 ampoules of methylphenidate.”
In Kaduna state, “a drug trafficker, Segun Abraham was arrested at Panteka area of the state on 17th June with 211.500kg of skunk heading to Kano state.”
I another development, “a Nigerian returning from Pakistan, Ezenyeche Kingsley Ebuka has been arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airpirt, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos with five pellets of heroin weighing 250grams discovered in his anus.”
While commending the Ogun, Oyo, Kaduna and the MMIA Commands of the Agency for sustaining the offensive action against illicit drug trafficking, the NDLEA boss Gen. Mohammed Marwa (Rtd) warned that the NDLEA will not spare any law enforcement agent hiding under the privilege of his uniform to engage in narcotic criminal business.
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