The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, on Sunday, confirmed the arrest of two Ghanaians, Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana, and 11 different suspects for drug-related offences in numerous elements of the nation.
The company’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in an announcement on Sunday, confirmed the event, stated officers of the company intercepted two imported consignments of a robust pressure of hashish often known as loud, with a mixed weight of 5,344.1 kilograms alongside the within the Lekki space of Lagos State.
He additionally revealed that primarily based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives ambushed a white truck conveying 50 jumbo baggage of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg alongside the Epe-Lekki Expressway within the early hours of Monday, June 19.
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Babafemi stated the driving force jumped out of the car and escaped in a safety van escorting the truck conveying the drug reveals, including that the anti-narcotics officers demobilised the truck.
The NDLEA spokesman defined additional that the next day, officers of the marine command of the company, whereas performing on intelligence, intercepted a ship loaded with the identical imported substance weighing 2,910kg round Alfa Seashore upon arrival from Ghana.
Babafemi stated, “Two Ghanaians, Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, discovered with the consignments, have been promptly arrested. In Niger State, two suspects, Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, have been arrested on Sunday, June 18, alongside Abuja Expressway, Suleja, with 31 jumbo baggage of skunk weighing 517kg, whereas 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday, June 21, at Ogbogodo village, Dekina LGA, Kogi State.
“A suspected pretend feminine safety agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was additionally nabbed at Ajegunle, within the Asa Dam Space of Ilorin, Kwara State, with 30kg of hashish on Thursday, June 22, whereas in Oyo State, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 49.2kg of identical substance on Saturday, June 24, in Oyo city.
“Operatives in Edo State stormed Ekudo Forest, Uhunmwode LGA, the place they destroyed a hashish farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects together with Onyeka Onyedinma, Monday Onyedi, Alex Eboh, Edosa Imariagbe, Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo within the early hours of Monday, June 19.”
