Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu; and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, for promoting and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to high school college students and at social events in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The event was revealed by the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in an announcement on Sunday, detailing the weekly arrests of suspects and medicines seized by the anti-narcotics company.
Babafemi famous, “NDLEA officers on patrol across the Opolo space of Yenagoa had on Sunday, March 10, 2024, intercepted the bike dispatch rider, Edesemi, and recovered 200 grammes of chin-chin produced with Hashish Sativa, which he was on a mission to ship to a purchaser.
“A swift follow-up operation led to the arrest of the hairdresser, Josephine, who distributes the drugged chin-chin from the salon the place she works within the Kpansia space of Yenagoa.
“A search of the salon additionally led to the restoration of three.00kg, bringing the full weight of the illicit substance seized from the duo to three.2kg.
“Investigations reveal that they distribute the chin-chin typically laced with hashish and tramadol to college students and at birthday events. Whereas Edesemi handles the supply to patrons, Josephine is a significant distributor to a needed suspect who produces the drugged chin-chin.”
The assertion additional revealed that NDLEA operatives in Adamawa State on Wednesday, March 13, “arrested two needed suspects – Ajim Samuel (aka Boss), 30, and Davidson Joshua (aka Dantala), 36, whereas on their means from Onitsha, Anambra State the place they’d gone to purchase a consignment of tramadol containing 14, 428 tablets of the opioid which they tucked within the physique compartments of their black Honda Civic automotive marked YLA 623 SL.
“They have been nabbed alongside the Numan-Jalingo street. Additionally recovered from them have been 21 grammes of hashish and financial displays totalling N19,280.”
The spokesperson for the anti-narcotics company added that in Osun State, “a 49-year-old industrial bus driver, Ogunleye Adegoke, was arrested alongside Gbongan-Ibadan street after NDLEA operatives found 2,000 capsules of tramadol, 60 tablets of Rohypnol and 10 bottles of codeine syrup hid within the spare tyre compartment of his automobile.
“In the meantime, a complete of 343,000 tablets of opioids have been seized by NDLEA officers from a suspect, Lawan Abubakar, 33, in Azare city, Katagum, Bauchi State on Friday, March 15, because the Nigerian Military transferred a suspect, Muhammadu Rabi’u, 37, with 64,000 tablets of tramadol recovered from him to the Bauchi State command of the NDLEA on the identical day.”
Babafemi added that “at the very least, 24kg of hashish was seized from the motive force of a transport firm, Ikechukwu Obialo, at Sagamu Interchange, Ogun state by NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, March 13, whereas in Kano, two suspects: Ali Amadu, 27, and Adamu Hassan, 33, have been nabbed with a complete of 125.3kg hashish; 3,400 tablets of tramadol; and 30 bottles of codeine syrup.
“They have been arrested on Monday, March 11, at Gadar Tamburawa space, and Friday, March 15, at Tsamiya Babba, Hotoro, respectively.”
“Whereas 118 kilograms of hashish have been recovered from a warehouse in Masaka space of Nasarawa state on Saturday, March 16, NDLEA operatives in Edo state on Thursday, March 14, arrested a suspect, Kole Samuel, 50, with 75kg of similar psychoactive substance at market space, Otuo, Owan East LGA. Similar day, operatives raided the Oloma-Okpe forest in Akoko Edo LGA, the place they destroyed 3,944.2075 kilograms of hashish on 1.577683 hectares of farmland,” the assertion learn.
