Operatives of Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have on a New Year day, intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.
The agency’s spokesperson Mr. Femi Babafemi in a press statement said, a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday 6th January following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos state.
He said, the consignment arrived the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.
According to Saheed, he delivers such consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. The latest shipment has a total weight of 1.80 kilograms.
Meanwhile, a 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman came top on the list of twelve other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.
Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday 3rd January by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria – Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady’s handbag.
She was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina state when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
Commending the arrests and seizures of the past week by officers and men of the affected commands, the Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the Agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their drug demand reduction as well as drug supply reduction efforts in the new year.
Meanwhile, NDLEA Commands across the 36 states and the FCT equally continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, work places among others.
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