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War Against Illicit Drugs: NDLEA Records Successes Across Nation
@Source: independent.ng
ABUJA – The National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recorded huge successes across the country starting with the arrest of an Iran-bound woman With Cocaine Tucked in her Private Part, Stomach and Bag at the Airport in Port Harcourt.
According to the statement released to the Press on Sunday May 11, 2025, and signed by the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy Femi Babafemi, the desperate woman, Ihensekhuen Miracle Obehi, who was disguised in Ijab to beat the Officers to export a large consignment of cocaine concealed in her Private part, stomach, and the false bottom of her handbag. Her destination was Iran before she was thwarted by the operatives of the NDLEA at the Port Harcourt international Airport in Rivers state on May 3, 2025.
Obehi who was arrested at the departure hall of the airport was waiting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Iran via Doha following incredible intelligence.
During the search, she was found to have inserted three wraps of cocaine in her Private part and two large percel hidden in the false compartment of her hand bag while she swallowed 67 pellets of the class A drug.
As a result, she was placed under under observation and after four excretions that lasted days, she expelled the 67 wraps of the substance in her stomach.
According to the suspect, she was supposed to swallow 70 pellets of cocaine but, after ingesting 67 pieces, she could no longer the remaining three and then decided to insert them into her Private part.
The total weight of the consignment hidden in different parts of her body comes to 2.523 kg.
In the statement, the NDLEA operatives in like manner, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos on Friday 9th May intercepted a 22-year-old British national, Campell Kaizra Kofi Johannes Slifer coming from Thailand through Doha on Qatar Airways flight with two suitcases loaded with 35 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 37.60kg.
Campell who claimed he had twice been convicted in the UK for drug trafficking and robbery, said he was recruited in London to travel to Thailand to pick the illicit consignment and bring same to Nigeria.
Niger state was not left out in the onslaught of the NDLEA operatives.
According to the statement, the NDLEA officers acting on intelligence on Wednesday 7th May intercepted a fuel truck marked ABJ 693 XU and three other vehicles loaded with 246 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a combined weight of 3, 047 kilograms along Suleja-Kaduna road. Four suspects arrested with the exhibits include: Christopher Onyema, 47; Benedict Etineruba Young, 54; Chukwudi Ujue Jerry, 30; and Mohammed Abdullahi Danasabe. Apart from the fuel truck, three other vehicles recovered from the suspects include: Honda Odyssey bus marked YAB 667 CZ; Gulf bus with registration number GWA 125 TQ andHonda Odyssey bus marked ABJ 230 CN.
At Oja Amukoko in Ijora area of Lagos, two suspects: Eze Chekube Emmanuel and Ike Samuel Chinyerem were on Thursday 8th May arrested by NDLEA operatives with a total of 109,914 pills of tramadol, swinol and nitrozepam seized from them.
While 52.5kg skunk was recovered from two suspects: Lukman Sabo Umar, 23, and Tukur Ammadu, 20, in a bus at Gwantu, Sanga LGA, Kaduna State on Tuesday 6th May, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu- Jebba expressway, Kwara State on Monday 5th May 2025,arrested Rufai Nasiru with 45,400 pills of tramadol 225mg.
In Bauchi state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Bauchi-Gombe road on Tuesday 6th May intercepted a Toyota Tundra jeep marked RBC 111 DW conveying 526 blocks of skunk weighing 505kg with two suspects: Isaac Onogure, 37 and Ikechukwu Peter, 44, arrested.
A total of 31 kegs containing 775 litres of codeine syrup were recovered from two suspects:
Hafizu Isa Uman, 34, and Ismail Shehu, 48, when NDLEA operatives raided their hideout at Rijiyar Zaki area of Kano on Saturday 10th May, while 1.1kg of Loud consignment concealed in pillow coming from Thailand was on Tuesday 6th May intercepted by NDLEA officers at a courier company in Lagos.
The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week. Some of them include: WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Federal Government College, Sokoto; Deeper Life International College, Nteje, Anambra; Martins Sanda Girls Science College, Paikoro, Niger state; Restoration Power International School, Idua Eket, Akwa Ibom; while Oyo state command delivered WADA enlightenment lecture to members of the League of Imams and Alfas at Iseyin Central Mosque, Iseyin, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, MMIA, PHIA, Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Bauchi, Kwara, and Niger Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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