The village head was identified as Abubakar lbrahim and the drugs recovered from them are over 991,320 Opioid pills and 1,251kg of Skunk.
Operatives of Nigeria’s anti-narcotic agency, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested the village head of Gidan Abba in the Bodinga Local Government Area of Sokoto State and 10 others.
The village head was identified as Abubakar lbrahim and the drugs recovered from them are over 991,320 Opioid pills and 1,251kg of Skunk.
In a statement by the Director of Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, lbrahim was among the 11 suspects arrested in interdiction operations in which 991,320 pills of pharmaceutical opioids and 1,251kg of cannabis, as well as 46.637 kilogrammes of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin were recovered across seven states in the country.
The anti-narcotic agency said that its operatives also intercepted 33.491kg Meth, Cocaine, and Heroin going to Spain; 13.146kg Cocaine in bathing soaps at Enugu airport.
NDLEA explained that at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, its operatives attached to the SAHCO import shed on Wednesday intercepted a total of 15 cartons containing 802,000 pills of Tramadol imported from Dubai, UAE and Karachi, Pakistan.
While 10 cartons of Tramadol 225mg came in from Dubai on Ethiopian Airlines flight, four cartons of 100mg and a carton of 225mg Tramadol came from Karachi, Pakistan on another Ethiopian Airlines flight, the agency stated.
It noted that on the same day, its operatives at the SAHCO export shed intercepted cans of tomato paste going to the United Kingdom and a thorough search of the consignment revealed that the tomato cans were used to conceal 36 pellets of cannabis with a gross weight of 21.30 kilogrammes and a cargo agent, Sodehinde Akinwale, was arrested in connection with the seizure.
On Friday, its operatives attached to the NAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport seized five cartons of dried khat leaves, weighing 107.70kg that came in from Bangkok, Thailand through Dubai on an Emirates Airline flight.
“A follow-up operation on the seizure of 11.90kg Meth concealed in the heads of dried fish going to Dubai, UAE on 5 August has led to the arrest of a 30-year-old bricklayer, Babatunde Quadri Mamowora on Thursday, 27 Oct in sango Ota area of Ogun state in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC) in the area.
“In the same vein, a 27-year-old Madu Chukwuemeka Miracle has been arrested by operatives at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AllIA), Enugu on arrival from Nairobi, Kenya via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on Wednesday, 26 Oct.
“A search of his three bags revealed seventy-six (76) foreign bathing soaps made with cocaine in one of the bags while another has two plastic bottles containing cream-like liquid, which tested positive to cocaine. The cocaine bars weigh 10.650 kilogrammes while the liquid cocaine weighs 2.496 kilogrammes, bringing the total weight to 13.146 kilogrammes.”
Babafemi further stated that in Kogi state, NDLEA operatives on stop and search operation along Okene-Abuja highway on Thursday intercepted a Chisco branded bus going from Lagos to Abuja with a consignment of 32.9kg Meth packaged as tubers of yam, 376 grams of Cocaine and 215 grams of heroin.
“While the bus driver, Chief Pascal Chigozie Nmaram was promptly arrested, a follow-up operation in Abuja same day led to the arrest of the recipient of the illicit cargo, Mr. lkenna Jude Akunne who confessed he was detailed to travel with the consignment to Spain the following day, Friday October 28, through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
“Meanwhile, operatives of the state command of the Agency have destroyed five hectares of cannabis farms at Agbonkete, lyaya Camp, lgalamela/Odolu LGA, where a suspect, Augustine Agbenyo, 34, was arrested with three sacks of both fresh and dried leaves and stems of the illicit substance,” he explained.
The agency also stated that while its operatives seized 146,000 pills of Tramadol, 225mg in a buy and bust operation in Oshodi area of Lagos on Tuesday, the Sokoto village, Ibrahim, 38, was arrested in Bodinga town same day with 3kg of cannabis sativa and 4,000 tablets of exol-5.
The statement further read, “In the FCT, operatives on patrol along Kwal-Abuja highway on Monday 24 Oct intercepted a truck with 915.8kilogrammes of cannabis and arrested three suspects: Kabiru Ibrahim, 40; Muhammad Muawiyya, 30, and Adamu Adamu, 24.
“In Adamawa state, operatives arrested two trans-border traffickers, Abdullahi Mamuda (aka Mama) and Aliyu Abdullahi aka Garga) at Skylight Hotel in Jambutu, Yola North. A search of their vehicle, an ash coloured Toyota Corolla car with registration number JMT 146 TE (Adamawa), revealed 39, 320 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in different compartments of the doors of the car.
“Preliminary investigation shows the trans-border traffickers took off from Onitsha in Anambra State and traveled to Jimeta, Adamawa State where they lodged in the hotel before heading to Belel, a town along the Nigeria-Cameroon border where they would repackage the drugs as ordinary consumables and ferry across the river to Garoa in Cameroon.
“Operatives in Ondo state on Friday, 28 Oct stormed a 2-bedroom building in Uso town, where they arrested one Okon Etim, 45, with 12 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 207kg.”