The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin, who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, the headquarters of Edo State’s Owan East Local Government Area.
The suspect was apprehended on Tuesday at his base in Afuze, according to NDLEA, and a wooden box meant to conceal illicit substances, including 18 pinches of methamphetamine, one block, and 71 wraps of cannabis, was recovered from him.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, confirmed this in a statement made on Sunday.
On Monday, November 6th, NDLEA operatives recovered 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480kgs from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West LGA, while the Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA was also raided on the same day, with 231.5kgs of the substance recovered and a cannabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectares destroyed.
While in Adamawa State, he stated that on Thursday, November 9th, operatives on patrol along the Ngurore-Yola route intercepted a Toyota Corolla automobile marked TZG 97 KY laden with 30,899 Tramadol 225mg and 100mg pills stashed inside the car’s body compartments.
According to him, the driver discovered in possession of the drug exhibits, Sani Samaila (a.k.a. Isa Male), 25, stated that he was transporting the cargo from Jalingo, Taraba State, to Yola, Adamawa State.
Babafemi also announced other anti-narcotics agency interceptions and seizures, saying: “The previous day, Wednesday 8th November, a suspect, Abdullahi Sani (a.k.a Danfulani), was arrested at Ngurore town in possession of some quantity of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa in a white nylon bag.” He then led operatives on a follow-up operation to the residence of an unrepentant ex-convict, Alhaji Bubakari (a.k.a Dan Mamuda), where 19 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 13kgs were found.
“In Ogun state, not less than 18.875 tons of cannabis sativa on 7.55 hectares farmland were destroyed and another 100 jumbo bags weighing 1,100 kilograms of the psychoactive substance recovered at James town, Ogunmakin area of Obafemi Owode LGA on Monday 6th November, by a combined team of NDLEA operatives with officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, Defence Intelligence Agency and the State Security Network, Amotekun. Okpor Chukwuma and six other male suspects found on the farmland were arrested.
“While a commercial bus driver, Olayinka Sowo, 25, was arrested on Friday 10th November along Ibadan – Akure expressway over alleged conspiracy to transport 45.150kgs cannabis from Lagos to Osun state, NDLEA officers in Abuja on same day intercepted 7, 980 pills of diazepam and 567 bottles of codeine syrup in a commercial bus along Abaji-Abuja highway after which a follow up operation at Zuba motor park led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Ugwu Ikenna, 30.
“In Delta state, NDLEA operatives backed by men of the Nigerian Army stormed a remote forest in Umuchime community, Ndokwa West LGA where they destroyed 12.5 tons of cannabis on five hectares of farmland, and recovered 53.22kgs processed weeds and seeds of the substance. A suspect, Christopher Anim (alias Ogidi) was also arrested in the course of the operation. Two suspects: Amarachukwu Eugene, 32, and Abdulaziz Auwal, 25, were arrested in another operation by operatives in Kano with 202 blocks of cannabis weighing 113.1kgs on Tuesday 7th November.”
Meanwhile, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers and men of the Edo, Ogun, Osun, Adamawa, Delta, and FCT Commands of the Agency for their balanced efforts in the past week,
Marwa applauded their counterparts across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures, thus creating parity between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
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