Obiorah Chigozie has been on the NDLEA's wanted list since September 15, 2023, when a consignment of 1.500kg skunk concealed in flour going to London.
Babafemi further noted that “In Kano, a septuagenarian, Ado Mai Unguwa, 70, was arrested on Saturday, September 30 with 143.2kgs skunk in Dundee village, Tofa LGA, while operatives in Enugu same day recovered 110.6kgs of same substance from a locked-up shop at Aria new market.
“Operatives in Lagos also on Saturday, September 30 stormed the notorious Idi-Oro drug enclave in Mushin where they seized 212.5kgs of cannabis sativa belonging to a wanted drug lord. “This is even as NDLEA officers in Kwara state recovered 104kgs of skunk from a Toyota Camry car in the Offa area of the state, while a Chadian, Mohammed Ibrahim, 25, was nabbed at Mafa checkpoint, Borno state with 11.8kgs of same substance on Monday, September 25,”
Meanwhile, in Plateau, officers of the state police command in the spirit of inter-agency collaboration transferred four suspects – Yusuf Akim, Frank Gah, Jackson Ejeh, and Joseph Utsu, alongside 1,978kgs cannabis recovered from them to the state command of the NDLEA, while in Cross River, operatives on Monday, September 25 seized 40,000 ampules of pentazocine injection from two suspects – Fajulugbe Adeshola Temitayo, 35, and Nnaorji Agwe Solomon, 54, at Mobil by MCC road, Calabar.
Also in Kogi state, NDLEA officers on Wednesday, September 27, arrested a suspect, Ifeanyi Odoh, 25, with 59,867 pills of opioids including Tramadol and 4.03kgs cannabis sativa at the Idah area of the state.All rights reserved. This material, and other digital content on this website, may not be reproduced, published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed in whole or in part without prior express written permission from PUNCH.
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