The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a notorious drug dealer, Godwin Emuneyin, who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as a cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, headquarters of the Owan East local government area of Edo State.
The suspect was arrested on November 7 at his base in Afuze following credible intelligence. At the time of his arrest, a wooden box used to conceal illicit substances, including 18 pinches of methamphetamine, one block, and 71 wraps of cannabis, was recovered from him.
In other interdiction operations in Edo State, NDLEA operatives recovered on November 6 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480 kg from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West LGA, while the Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA was also raided the same day with 231.5 kg of the substance recovered and a cannabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectares destroyed.
In Adamawa state, an NDLEA statement on Sunday said operatives were on patrol along Ngurore-Yola road on November 9.
intercepted a Toyota Corolla car marked TZG 97 KY loaded with 30, 899 Tramadol 225mg and 100mg pills concealed inside the body compartments of the car.
The driver found in possession of the drug exhibits, Sani Samaila (a.k.a. Isa Male), said he was bringing the consignment from Jalingo, Taraba State, to deliver in Yola, Adamawa State.
The previous day, November 8th, the statement said a suspect, Abdullahi Sani (a.k.a. Danfulani), was arrested at Ngurore town in possession of some quantity of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa in white nylon. He thereafter led operatives on a follow-up operation to the home of a drug lord, Alhaji Bubakari (a.k.a. Dan Mamuda), an unrepentant ex-convict, where 19 blocks of compressed cannabis that weighed 13 kg were recovered.
In Ogun State, not less than 18.875 tonnes of cannabis sativa on 7.55 hectares of farmland were destroyed, and another 100 jumbo bags weighing 1,100 kilogrammes of the psychoactive substance were recovered at James Town, Ogunmakin area of Obafemi Owode LGA, on November 6th, by a combined team of NDLEA operatives with officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, Defence Intelligence Agency, and the State Security Network, Amotekun. Okpor Chukwuma and six other male suspects found on the farmland were arrested.
While a commercial bus driver, Olayinka Sowo, was arrested on Friday along the Ibadan-Akure motorway over an alleged conspiracy to transport 45.150 kg of cannabis from Lagos to Osun State, NDLEA officers in Abuja intercepted 7,980 pills of diazepam and 567 bottles of codeine syrup in a commercial bus along the Abaji-Abuja highway, after which a follow-up operation at Zuba Motor Park led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Ugwu Ikenna.
In Delta State, NDLEA operatives, backed by men of the Nigerian Army, stormed a remote forest in Umuchime community, Ndokwa West LGA, where they destroyed 12.5 tonnes of cannabis on five hectares of farmland and recovered 53.22 kg of processed weeds and seeds of the substance. A suspect, Christopher Anim (alias Ogidi), was also arrested in the course of the operation.
The statement said two suspects, Amarachukwu Eugene and Abdulaziz Auwal, were arrested in another operation by operatives in Kano with 202 blocks of cannabis weighing 113.1 kg on November 7.
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