Anthony Iwuoma
Men of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have nabbed a nonagenarian for selling hard drugs to youths in Yarkadir Village, Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina State.
The suspect, Yusuf Yarkadir, confessed to selling cannabis sativa to the youths in his community for eight years because they demanded for the illegal substance. However, he regretted his action.
Spokesperson of NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said in a statement, on Friday, that the suspect did not disclose his source of supply.
Similarly, the anti-narcotics agency arrested two teenage siblings alongside other suspects in the Ondo State for dealing in assorted illicit drugs in the state capital.
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According to Babafemi, “The teenagers – Onyema Sunday, 16; and his sister, Onyema Amaka, 15, were arrested in Car street area of Akure with 1.894kilograms of Tramadol on Monday 5th July, while 23-year-old Kazeem Oluyede was nabbed in Eru Oba Area of the capital city with 300grams of cannabis and 3grams of methamphetamine, just as a lady Maryam Musa, 35, was arrested in Igbara-Oke, Ifedore Local Council Area of the state with 5.5kilograms of cannabis, all same day,”
In another development, also in Ondo State, NDLEA operatives, on Wednesday, 7th July, stormed the Ogbese Market in Akure North LGA, where Messrs Jalamia Ochonogor and Austin Uzoka were arrested with 63kilograms of cannabis.
Their arrest followed reliable intelligence and surveillance.
No fewer than seven suspects were also arrested and 28.091kilograms of assorted drugs such as Diazepam, Exol-5, Rophynol, Tramadol, Codeine, and cannabis seized from them.
Those arrested in two separate raids by operatives of the Bauchi State Command of the Agency include Sunday Obi, Abba Abdullahi, Samuel John, Chijioke Agu, Sani Musa, Alhaji Baffa, and Abubakar Saidu.
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Assorred quantities of illicit drugs being trafficked to the United Kingdom, New Zealand and the United States were also intercepted and confiscated by narcotic officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, attached to some courier companies in Lagos.
The NDLEA spokesman disclosed in one of the courier firms, 400 grams of Ketamine hidden in walls of hair attachments carton, coming from Cameroon and heading to the US was seized.
Others include 30grams of Tramadol concealed in female headgear coming from Onitsha, Anambra State and going to the UK, 200grams of Ketamine from Cameroon going to USA, and 400grams of Methamphetamine from Asaba, Delta State heading to New Zealand.