Operatives of the National
Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two drug dealers, Martins
Okwor Ejiofor, 31, and Bala Mohammed, 33, with a total of 24.450 kilograms of
assorted substances meant to be delivered in Gwada, Shiroro Local Government of
Niger State where bandits in neighboring forest buy their illicit drugs. Gwada
has one of the two functional markets bordering the forest where bandits and
kidnappers hibernate in Niger State.
A statement released by Femi Babafemi,
spokesperson of the anti-drug agency, says drugs seized from the suspects
include Codeine 7.100kg, Diazepam 6.400kg and Exol 5 10.950kg.
He said the Kwara State NDLEA Commands
Highway Patrol Team along Okolowo (Ilorin) Jebba Highway intercepted the
consignment in a Hiace bus, with registration number: Niger 14 B.40NG,
belonging to Niger State Transport Authority on Saturday 5th June, 2021.
''Martins Ejiofor had
travelled to Lagos with the second suspect to procure the drugs and deliver to
dealers in Gwada. During interrogation, he confessed that he had been arrested
with over 50 kilograms of cannabis sativa and charged to Court by the Niger
State Command of the Agency in 2020. He completed his one-year jail term in
March this year and resumed his nefarious illicit drug business.'' the
statement in part read.
Babafemi added that another
suspect, Usman Abass, 38, was arrested with 6.8kg cannabis Sativa concealed in
a sack containing used clothes, which the suspect bought at Alaba International
Market in Lagos. The suspect upon interrogation claimed that one Baba gave him
the exhibit to deliver to one Lawali in Katsina State before his arrest by a
team of the Commands operatives attached to Jebba Area Command during a routine
stop and search operation. The suspect confessed that he had transported
cannabis sativa once to Katsina and that the latest trip was his second.
In a related development, operatives of the
Delta State Command of the Agency on June 4, arrested a 20-year-old man,
Chukwujeku Lucky, at Ogwashi Uku, Delta State with multiple drugs weighing
38.90 kilograms. Babafemi said some of the drugs seized from his apartment
where he serves as a salesman include: 68 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing
38.7kg; 498 pinches of cocaine (50.9 grams); 33 pinches of heroin (4.4 grams);
304 capsules of Tramadol (91grams); 72 tablets of Swinol (27 grams), and 26
grams of Methamphetamine.
While commending the Commanders, officers and
men of both Kwara and Delta state Commands for the arrests and seizures,
Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd)
said the development would in no small measure reduce the availability of
illicit substances available to bandits and other criminal elements who take
them as enhancers of their evil enterprise. He charged them to remain vigilant
and continue to acquaint themselves with the latest disingenuous modes of
concealment and transportation of illicit drugs by defiant traffickers.
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