The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two drug consignments consisting of ecstasy and skunk going to the United Arab Emirates.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that the officers attached to courier companies intercepted the drugs.
Mr Babafemi said the pills of ecstasy were concealed in a gold colour wedding gown, adding that the skunk was hidden in a microcontroller.
This is even as Kelvin Ogenedoro, a 400-level Marine Engineering student at the Niger Delta University, Amassoma, Bayelsa State, has been arrested for dealing in 600 grams of skunk.
Mr Babafemi said the suspect was nabbed at the university’s gate in a follow-up operation after the interception of the consignment in a commercial bus along Tombia-Amassoma road.
In Adamawa State, a notorious drug dealer, Ishaku Emzor, aka Lalas, who was convicted and sentenced to 15 years’ imprisonment in 2010 for drug offences, was on Thursday, April 20, arrested for drug dealing.
Mr Babafemi said he was arrested at Hayin Gada, Imburu Numan LGA, where he went to supply 1.650kg of cannabis to an undercover operative.
“His Yellow Press Cub motorcycle, used for supplying illicit drugs, was recovered from him at the point of arrest.
“Also, cash of N78,120 suspected to be proceeds of the illegal business was also seized from him.
“On the same day in Kaduna, operatives acting on credible intelligence intercepted a truck conveying 110 bags and 200 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa in Zaria.
“The drugs were weighing 1,223kg while the truck driver, Adekunle Olanrewaju, 32, and his assistant, Tunde Jamiu, 20, were arrested,” he said.
(NAN)
