Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided online drug traffickers in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), arresting a young lady and her boyfriend as well as eight others with assorted drugs.
This was disclosed in statement released by the NLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
The statement says the first suspect, 28-year-old Ese Patrick, who sells her illicit substances through Instagram account; Ese’sOvenSecret, was tracked and arrested with some pieces of brownies ordered online by NDLEA undercover agents, on May 21, 2021 and delivered by herself and her boyfriend in a Mercedes Benz car.
400 grams of Arizona weed, which she uses in baking the brownies, was seized during a follow up operation at her residence.
Further investigation led to the arrest of one Iyama Patrick, with 450 grams of Arizona weed. He supplies Ese the cannabis she uses.
The NLEA also reports that a day earlier, a motorcycle belonging to a courier company, Sky Port, was abandoned by a dispatch rider in Wuse zone 4 upon sighting NDLEA’s outpost in the area.
The motorcycle was later found to contain several pinches of crack cocaine and some envelopes of Arizona meant for delivery.
On Monday, May 24, 2021, another online drug trafficker, Peter Nkejika, was arrested following an arrest of a dispatch rider with some quantity of Loud, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis.
Each portion of loud costs N30, 000 and the rider was caught with 17 portions for delivery.
Also on Tuesday May 25th, NDLEA operatives got wind of two online drug transactions and arrested two dispatch riders with some quantities of cocaine and Loud already packaged for delivery recovered from them.
In all, five dispatch riders and a lady, Dolapo Benjamin, who owns the motorcycles involved in door to door distribution of drugs and drug based edibles; cakes and brownies were arrested while six dispatch motorcycles involved in door to door drug distribution were seized.
Assorted drugs such as; Cocaine, Crack /Challie, Molly/ Ecstasy, Skunk, Brownies and Loud, which is the most expensive psychoactive variant of cannabis in town, were also seized from them.
In a related development, on May 27, 2021, NDLEA operatives intercepted 30 compressed parcels of cannabis, heading to Ningi, Bauchi state, as well as Rohypnol and Tramadol meant for the FCT.
The drugs weighing 105.5 kilograms were seized along Gwagwalada- Abuja road, in a luxury bus.
Three persons were arrested in connection with the exhibits, while two more dispatch motorcycles were seized with some quantities of cocaine and cannabis on Saturday, May 29 as the raids across the FCT intensify.