The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two female students of Edo State Polytechnic, Uzen, Babalola Modupe Angel, 19 and Esekhagbe Sonia, 20.
The agency said in a statement by its spokesman, Mr. Femi Babafemi that the suspects were arrested on Thursday, September 23 with 21 wraps of skunk.
Babafemi also said another lady, Chioma Okocha, 25, was arrested the following day Friday, September 24 when she tried to deliver 200 grams of crack cocaine to a customer at an eatery in Benin.
“Earlier same day, men of the Irrua Area Command of the agency working on actionable intelligence evacuated 10 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 135kg in Amahor bush in Igueben area. The exhibits were stored ready for transportation to other parts of the country.
“In the same vein, men of the Okada Area Command in the early hours of Sunday 26th Sept evacuated 2,937 kilograms of cannabis sativa from Utese forest in Ovia North East local government area of Edo state,” he added.
In Kaduna State, Babafemi said a widow and notorious drug dealer, Mrs. Fatima Musa, was arrested on Saturday, September 18 at Afana village in Zango Kataf local government area while moving 12kg of cannabis to Jos.
“She had earlier been convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment on 7th July 2020 following her arrest on 3rd March 2020 with 45kg of cannabis sativa,” he said.
The agency also said one Ms. Ozigbo Joy Nneka was arrested at NAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos while trying to export packs of codeine tablets weighing 15.15kg to the United Kingdom on Wednesday, September 22.
A day earlier, Tuesday, September 21, he said NDLEA operatives at the airport also arrested one Nwajindo Ndubuisi Emmanuel during inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E-arrival hall.
Some bottles of codeine weighing 5.65kg were recovered from him.
Also at the airport, a total of 150.30kg of khat was seized on Monday, September 20 after six weeks of placing the consignment, which arrived SAHCO shed on August 2, via Kenyan Airways cargo flight, on surveillance.
The NDLEA also said it raided JAT Suites in Abuja where drugs are sold and young ladies camped for commercial sex.
Babafemi said at least four persons; three ladies and a man were arrested when the drug joint located at 30 Lobito Crescent, Wuse 2 was raided and some quantity of Rohynol and paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine were recovered on Wednesday, September 22.
He said investigations revealed that the hotel is operated without requisite approvals in a high-brow neighborhood and patronised by call girls while the bar serves as the spot to smoke and sell drugs to the young girls and their customers.
While commending the officers and men of the FCT, Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos, Edo and Kaduna Commands of the agency for the raids, arrests and seizures in the past week, chairman/chief executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), urged them not to rest on their oars until the menace of drug trafficking and abuse is reduced to the barest minimum in every part of the country.
