By Emma Njoku
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of 32 pieces of Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs), being taken to bandits’ camp in Niger State.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who made the disclosure in a statement, yesterday, said the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the Agency, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), has since ordered the immediate transfer of a suspect, Musa Muhammadu, caught with the explosives last Monday, along Wawa road, Kainji, Niger State, to the military.
“Barely a week after NDLEA operatives at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos intercepted a consignment of 30.10kg methamphetamine going to London, UK, another shipment containing 379grams of the same illicit substance concealed in false bottom of six black soap containers, packed in a carton containing local hand fans, heading to Cyprus in Europe, has been recovered at a courier company in Lagos by officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) in the agency,” Babafemi stated.
In Adamawa State, operatives on stop-and-search patrol, along Michika- Bazza road, last Friday, arrested a Cameroonian, Ndawai Emma Ngalou, with a pair of Nigerian Army camourflage uniform bearing Sunday U and two ATM cards, belonging to Turaki Mohammed and Ekene Izuegunam.
Two ladies: Bilkisu Yusuf, 33, and Kauna Katsina, 25, were last Monday, arrested in Ningi town, Bauchi State, with 11,080 pills of tramadol, while Uche Shadrach, 22, was arrested with 20,480 pills of the same pharmaceutical opioid last Wednesday, along Okene-Lokoja highway, Kogi State, on his way from Onitsha, Anambra State to Minna, Niger State.
In the same vein, two suspects: Surajo Adamu and Muhammad Ali were arrested last Friday, with 379,200 tablets of diazepam in the Alimosho area of Lagos, while the MMIA Command of the agency took custody of 22 cartons of tramadol 225mg, weighing 1,144.30 kg and 12 cartons of tramadol 120mg with a total weight of 320kg, all containing 2, 317, 400 pills transferred to the agency by the Airport Command of the Nigeria Customs Service, last Thursday.
In Delta State, NDLEA operatives supported by men drawn from the Nigerian Army, NSCDC and the police, last Wednesday, raided the notorious Abbi town, Ndokwa West LGA, where three suspects: Eunice Eneh, 52; Animan Ifeoma, 26, and Chuks Webema Dennis, 35, were arrested with a total of 343.9kg cannabis recovered from them.
A similar mop up operation in Bayelsa has led to the arrest of a wanted suspect, Ozoemena Egbochue, 38, at the Swali market in Yenagoa, last Monday, following the earlier arrest of his sales boy, Morgan Eredeowei, with 11,748 pills of tramadol and diazepam.
While commending the officers and men of the agency across all commands nationwide for their professionalism and synergy with other law enforcement agencies in the mop up operation, Marwa urged them to sustain the offensive action even after today’s handover ceremonies.