Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two drug dealers, Martins Okwor Ejiofor (31 years), and Bala Mohammed (33 years) with a total of 24.450 kilograms of assorted illicit substances meant to be delivered in Gwada, Shiroro Local Government of Niger State where bandits buy their illicit drugs.
Drugs seized from the suspects include Codeine (7.100kg), Diazepam (6.400kg) and Exol 5 (10.950kg).
The NDLEA Command’s Highway Patrol Team in Kwara State intercepted the consignment in a Hiace bus with registration number; Niger 14 B.40NG, belonging to Niger State Transport Authority on Saturday June 5, 2021.
This was disclosed in a statement released on Wednesday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
The statement revealed Martins Ejiofor had travelled to Lagos with the second suspect to buy the drugs and deliver to dealers in Gwada.
During interrogation, he confessed that he had been arrested with over 50 kilograms of cannabis sativa and charged to Court by the Niger State Command of the Agency in 2020. He completed his one-year jail term in March this year and resumed his nefarious illicit drug business.
Meanwhile, another suspect, Usman Abass (38 years) was arrested with 6.8kg cannabis sativa hidden in a sack containing used clothes, which the suspect bought at Alaba International Market in Lagos.
Upon interrogation, the suspect claimed that one Baba gave him the exhibit to deliver to one Lawali in Daura, Katsina State, before his arrest by a team of the Command’s operatives attached to Jebba Area Command during a routine stop and search operation.
The suspect confessed that he had transported cannabis sativa once to Katsina and that the latest trip was his second.
The previous day, Friday, June 4, 2021, operatives of the NDLEA in Delta State arrested 20-year-old Chukwujeku Lucky at Ogwashi Uku, with multiple drugs weighing 38.90 kilograms.
Some of the drugs seized from his apartment where he serves as a salesman include: 68 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 38.7kg; 498 pinches of cocaine (50.9 grams); 33 pinches of heroin (4.4 grams); 304 capsules of Tramadol (91grams); 72 tablets of Swinol (27 grams), and 26 grams of Methamphetamine.
While commending the Commanders, officers and men of both Kwara and Delta state Commands for the arrests and seizures, The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the Commanders, officers and men of both Kwara and Delta State commands, saying the development would in no small measure reduce the availability of illicit substances available to bandits and other criminal elements who take them as enhancers of their evil enterprise.
He charged them to remain vigilant and continue to acquaint themselves with the latest disingenuous modes of concealment and transportation of illicit drugs by defiant traffickers.