The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 42-year-old Indian lady, Ms. Neetu Neetu for being in possession of 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates.
Neetu was arrested by operatives of the NDLEA at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, on Friday, 14th March 2025.
A statement issued by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said the Class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR1431 from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport.
“The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders, a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, Babafemi quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig.- Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa as saying in his immediate reaction to Neetu’s arrest.
The statement said in another interdiction operation carried out in Kano on March 20, NDLEA officers arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road.
“Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.
“While Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday 19th March with 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, a female suspect Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday 18th March.
“In Lagos, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin just as 100.8kg of same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe area of Mushin while Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with 4.5kg skunk; 600grams of tramadol 225mg and 30 litres of codeine syrup on Tuesday 18th March.
“Another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested same day in Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine,” the statement said.
Babafemi said the various Commands and formations of the NDLEA also scaled up their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitization activities during the week under review.
He said the engagements took them schools, markets, motor parts, work places and worship centres.
“These include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger State; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra State; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti, Ekiti State; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto State; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa State, among others,” he said.
In his reaction to the arrests
and seizures during the week under review,the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended officers and men of MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano Commands of the agency for their outstanding performance.
Marwa noted with satisfaction the balance in drug supply and demand reduction efforts of all the formations nationwide,charging them not to relent.
(vitalnewsngr.com)
