University undergraduate, lover, nabbed for producing, selling drug cookies to school children

Joy Anyim

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje, and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, for producing and selling drug cookies to school children and other unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja.

NDLEA operatives at Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Command, have also launched a manhunt for another member of the syndicate involved in producing the cookies with Arizona, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis, alcohol and Rohypnol, among other ingredients.

It was gathered that  Agboje was arrested with four pieces of the drug cookies on Sunday, April 18.

Her arrest at NNPC Cooperative Estate, opposite Gaduwa Estate in Abuja, was based on a complaint that she gave an unsuspecting young girl the cookies to eat.

The young girl had after eating the drug cookies, lost her mind, could not sleep and kept making incoherent utterances due to the effects of the cookies.

Under interrogation, the prime suspect, Agboje confessed she prepares the cookies with a friend and sells each pack of three pieces at N1, 500.

A follow-up operation in her boyfriend’s house led to the recovery of over 200 pieces of the drug cookies.

According to the Commander, FCT Command of the NDLEA, Mohammed Malami Sokoto: “The boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, and all the equipment used for the production of the cookies were brought to the office for further investigation. The suspect confirmed that she sells at parties and to unsuspecting members of the public, including school children that are the most vulnerable. The suspect also supplies to some supermarkets and clubs in the FCT.”

While commending officers and men of the FCT Command for unravelling the syndicate, Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. General Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd.), said what the syndicate was doing was not only criminal but equally unconscionable by deliberately luring schoolchildren into drug under the cover of selling biscuits or cookies to them.

 “I wish to draw the attention of parents to this new devious strategy to get children addicted to drug cookies and urge them to remain vigilant while monitoring what their wards bring home from school or consume as a snack,” Marwa stated.