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NDLEA Intercepts Colos Consignment Concealed In Boxing Kits

..arrests female bandits' supplier of ammunition, 11 others over illicit drugs

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January 7, 2024
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NDLEA Intercepts Colos Consignment Concealed In Boxing Kits
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA) said its operatives have intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.

Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed this in a statement in Sunday said the consignment of drugs was seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja – Lagos on New Year day, Monday 1st January 2024

According to Babafemi, a week long intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday 6th January following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos State.

The statement said the consignment had arrived the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.

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Babafemi said Saheed admitted delivering such ” consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them.

“The latest shipment has a total weight of 1.80 kilograms.”

Meanwhile, Babafemi saud a 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman came top on the list of 12 other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.

He said : “Bilkisu , was arrested on Wednesday 3rd January by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria-Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady’s handbag.

“She was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina State when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna State command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.”

The statement further said military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday 2nd January transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37 and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.

“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on 12th December 2023 close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island.

“Some armed escorts, however , resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation, a development which attracted soldiers from the cantonment, who eventually intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the Agency.

“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Niger State on Thursday 5th January during a stop and search operation along Suleja-Kaduna road intercepted a J5 bus coming from Ondo State to Zaria, Kaduna State with twenty-three (23) bags of cannabis sativa weighing 219.5kg.

“Two suspects: Umar Musa, 26 and Isachiru Abubakar were arrested in connection with the seizure.

“While a female drug trafficker, Queen Onyema, 27, was arrested on Saturday 6th January in a commercial bus enroute Abuja along Okene-Lokoja expressway with 12 compressed blocks of cannabis weighing 4.6kg and 0.046kg designer drugs concealed in an indomie carton, another suspect Mubarak Sani, 20, was nabbed at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano on Monday 1st January with 445.9k kilograms of the same psychoactive substance.

“In Borno, four suspects: Zanna Alhaji Dala, 32; Musa Umar, 21; Mushe Ibrahim, 23, and Shehu Idris, 19 were arrested at Pomfomari bye pass area of the state with 60kg cannabis.

“Also, in Osun, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Osogbo-Ode Omu road on new year day, Monday 1st January intercepted a consignment of illicit drugs sent through waybill from Lagos to Osogbo.

“A follow-up operation led to the arrest of Ibrahim Olawale, 43.

“The drugs recovered include: cannabis sativa 10.8kg; Loud 150grams; Colorado 19grams; Molly 5grams totalling 10.974kg.

“A digital scale, N18,000 monetary exhibit and customized wrapping papers for Colorado were also seized,” Babafemi explained.

The statement said NDLEA Commands across the 36 states and the FCT also intensified their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, work places and others during the week under review.

According to the statement, some of these include : WADA sensitisation lecture for students of Nurul Huda Community Islamiyya School, Farin Yaro, Katsina; members of first aid group of Jamaatul Izalatul Bidia Waiqamatus Sunnah (JIBWIS) at Ajilari community school, Gomari, Maiduguri, Borno; WADA sensitisation lecture at the 2024 Oke Afo youth day, Olorunda LCDA Lagos and WADA advocacy visit to the Emir of Gaya, Alhaji Aliyu Ibrahim Gaya by the Kano State command of the agency.

Commending the arrests and seizures of the past week by officers and men of the MMIA, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun Commands,

The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa in his reaction to the arrests and seizures commended
officers and men of the MMIA, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun commands,

He charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their drug demand reduction as well as drug supply reduction efforts in the new year.      (vitalnewsngr.com)

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