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NDLEA Arrests Nursing Mother For Smuggling Drugs
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NDLEA has arrested a nursing mother for smuggling drugs.
EKOHOTBLOG reports that the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a nursing mother, Mariam Drissu, in Edo State Command headquarters of the agency while trying to smuggle drugs into the cell for a suspect in custody.
This was made known by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja on Sunday.
Babafemi stated that the NDLEA operatives on duty, last Thursday, while searching the food brought by 35-year-old Mariam for her relation in custody, discovered two cups of ‘Loud’ cannabis weighing 13grams buried inside the food (akpu) meant for the suspect in custody.
The spokesman added that the agency intercepted over 2,060kgs of assorted drugs including heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis, tramadol and Rohypnol in operations at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos and also in Ondo, Edo, Kano, Kaduna, Plateau and some courier companies.
He said, “Two consignments of heroin weighing 4.40kg and 550grams were intercepted on October 6 and 15 respectively at the cargo shed of the MMIA, Ikeja.
“The first was seized at the SAHCO import shed of the airport when it was discovered inside bags of granulated sugar and flour from Johannesburg, South Africa via Addis Ababa to Lagos on an Ethiopian Airlines flight.
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“Two suspects; Chukwuemeka Ugochukwu, a freight agent that cleared the consignment and one Kabiru Aminu, a stock keeper that was to collect the cargo for onward distribution to recipients were arrested for further investigation.
“In a follow-up operation on 9th October, one Adeoya Segun Joy who was to collect the luggage from Kabiru Aminu was arrested at Ajao estate while Enahoro Emmanuel Anointing who was also assigned to collect the consignment was nabbed in Abuleegba area of Lagos. Both were acting on instructions from their partners in South Africa,” Babafemi stated.
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