The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has detained a 60-year-old woman Chidimma Sunday and a 28-year-old man Abubakar Usman, both persons living with disability in Abia and Rivers state respectively.
Their arrest followed their involvement in illicit drug trade according to a statement by NDLEA Spokesperson Femi Babafemi on Sunday.
While Chidimma was nabbed with 1.8kg skunk by Umuosu vigilante group in Umuna Autonomous community, Isialangwa North LGA Abia state and handed over to NDLEA on Wednesday 10th June, Abubakar was arrested at Rumuokoro Port Harcourt Rivers state with 400 grams of skunk, 5 grams of methamphetamine, 100 grams of tramadol, 5 grams of swinol and 18 grams of diazepam during a raid by NDLEA officers on Tuesday 9th June.
In Delta, NDLEA operatives on Monday 8th June arrested a suspect Onya Jude, 36, in possession of five gas cylinders used to conceal 2.8 kilograms of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis at Ogwashi uku, Aniocha South area of the state.
This was followed by the arrest of two notorious dealers: 40-year-old Jamilu Idris (a.k.a Jama) and 33-year-old Aminu Abdullahi (a.k.a Momo) at Kasuwan Katako area of Gombe, Gombe state.
They were caught with three big blocks of skunk that weighed 2.738kg at the time of their arrest by NDLEA operatives.
While Ngozi Gaius, 39, was nabbed along Zaria/Kano road, Kano state on Friday 12th June conveying 6,000 pills of tramadol 225mg, two suspects: Nasiru Hamza, 47; and Muhammad Sani, 38, were intercepted by NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu road, Kwara state conveying 600 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 304kg in a black Toyota jeep with special registration number: P JHR 783 on Tuesday 9th June.
In Taraba, NDLEA officers acting on credible intelligence on Saturday 13th June raided the warehouse of a notorious dealer Ali Adamu, 45, at Maihula village, Bali LGA where 63 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 1,121.5 kilograms, were recovered. Same day, operatives on patrol along Gwagwalada expressway, FCT Abuja, arrested Emmanuel Nnadi, 46, and seized from him assorted illicit substances including: 30,400 pills of tramadol 225mg and 100mg; 750 pills of pregabline 300mg; 200 pills of molly; and 592 bottles of codeine-based syrup.
A large consignment of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,102 kilograms, was recovered around Alaba International Market, Ojo area of Lagos on Saturday 13th June.
