…3,300KGS OF DRUGS SEIZED IN ABUJA HOTEL, LAGOS AIRPORT, EDO, KADUNA RAIDS
By Okosun Dennis
It was a bountiful harvest of arrests as operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), arrested 10 persons in different sting operations as they also uncovered a hotel in Abuja where drugs are sold and young ladies camped for commercial sex.
Among those arrested, three ladies and a man were arrested when the drug joint, JAT Suites, located at 30 Lobito Crescent, Wuse 2 was raided and some quantity of Rohypnol and paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine were recovered on Wednesday, September 22, 2021.
Investigations revealed that the hotel is operated without requisite approvals in a high-profile neighbourhood and patronised by call girls while the bar serves as the spot to smoke and sell drugs to the young girls and their customers.
In a statement on Sunday by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Headquarters, in Abuja, Femi Babafemi, said that the Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has directed the FCT Command and the Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations of the Agency to do all within the law to ensure the property is forfeited to the federal government to serve as a deterrent to others who allow their premises to be used for drug dealing.
In the same vein, one Ms. Ozigbo Joy Nneka has been arrested at NAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos while trying to export packs of codeine tablets weighing 15.15kg to the United Kingdom last Wednesday.
A day earlier, Tuesday, September 21, it was learnt that narcotics officers at the airport also arrested one Nwajindo Ndubuisi Emmanuel during inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E-arrival hall. Some bottles of codeine weighing 5.65kg were recovered from him.
Also at the airport, a total of 150.30kg of khat was seized on Monday, September 20 after six weeks of placing the consignment, which arrived SAHCO shed on August 2, via Kenyan Airways cargo flight, on surveillance.
In a related development, two female part one students of Edo State Polytechnic, Uzen, Babalola Modupe Angel, 19 years old, and Esekhagbe Sonia, 20 years old were arrested on Thursday, September 23, with 21 wraps of skunk, while another lady, Chioma Okocha, 25, was arrested the following day Friday, September 24 when she tried to deliver 200grams of Crack Cocaine to a customer at an eatery in Benin City.
It was also gathered that earlier on the same day, men of the Irrua Area Command of the Agency working on intelligence evacuated 10 bags of cannabis Sativa weighing 135kg in Amahor bush in the Igueben area. The exhibits were stored ready for transportation to other parts of the country.
In the same vein, men of the Okada Area Command in the early hours of Sunday, September 26, evacuated 2,937 kilograms of cannabis Sativa from Utese forest in Ovia North-East local government area of Edo state.
In Kaduna state, Mrs. Fatima Musa, a widow and notorious drug dealer was arrested on Saturday, September 18 at Afana village in Zango Kataf Local Government Area while moving 12kg of cannabis to Jos. She had earlier been convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment on July 7, 2020, following her arrest on March 3, 2020, with 45kg of Cannabis Sativa.
While commending the officers and men of the FCT, MMIA, Edo, and Kaduna Commands of the Agency for the raids, arrests, and seizures in the past week, Gen. Marwa (retd) urged them not to rest on their oars until the menace of drug trafficking and abuse is reduced to the barest minimum in every part of the country.
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