NDLEA Intercepts Female Supplier Of Ammunition To Bandits, Arrests 11 Others Over Three Tons Of Illicit Drugs ...Raids Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, Osun Drug Joints
A 28-year-old female, who is a huge supplier of ammunition to bandits, one Bilkisu Suleman, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
A 28-year-old female, who is a huge supplier of ammunition to bandits, one Bilkisu Suleman, has been arrested by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
Bilkisu topped the list of 12 other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in the new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.
Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday, January 3, by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria–Kano Expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady’s handbag.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on
Sunday 7, January, 2024, said she was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina State when she was nabbed.
According to Babafemi, she was immediately transferred to the Kaduna State Command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
Babafemi added that the operatives of the NDLEA at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, on the New Year day, Monday 1, January 2024, also intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.
He said the operation was a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested.
According to him, after the week intelligence activities on the suspicious consignment, the operatives on Saturday 6, January, after a successful tracking, a 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos State, was apprehended.
"The consignment had arrived the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.
"According to Saheed, he delivers such consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. The latest shipment has a total weight of 1.80 kilograms." Babafemi said.
He also said that the military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday 2, January, transferred a suspect, one, Francis Suru, 37 and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.
He explained that the suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on December 12, 2023, close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island.
According to him, some armed escorts, however, resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation.
Babafemi explained that the ugly development attracted soldiers from the cantonment, to intervene and eventually, took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the Agency.
"In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Niger state on Thursday 5th January during a stop and search operation along Suleja-Kaduna road intercepted a J5 bus coming from Ondo state to Zaria, Kaduna state with twenty-three (23) bags of cannabis sativa weighing 219.5kg.
"Two suspects: Umar Musa, 26 and Isachiru Abubakar were arrested in connection with the seizure.
"A female drug trafficker, Queen Onyema, 27, was arrested on Saturday 6, January in a commercial bus enroute Abuja along Okene-Lokoja expressway with 12 compressed blocks of cannabis weighing 4.6kg and 0.046kg designer drugs concealed in an indomie carton, another suspect Mubarak Sani, 20, was nabbed at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano on Monday 1st January with 445.9k kilograms of the same psychoactive substance.
"In Borno, four suspects: Zanna Alhaji Dala, 32; Musa Umar, 21;
Mushe Ibrahim, 23, and Shehu Idris, 19 were arrested at Pomfomari bye pass area of the state with 60kg cannabis.
"Also, in Osun, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Osogbo-Ode Omu road on new year day, Monday 1st January intercepted a consignment of illicit drugs sent through waybill from Lagos to Osogbo.
"A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Ibrahim Olawale, 43. The drugs recovered include: cannabis sativa 10.8kg; Loud 150grams; Colorado 19grams; Molly 5grams totalling 10.974kg. A digital scale, N18,000 monetary exhibit and customized wrapping papers for Colorado were also seized." Babafemi said.
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