33 tons psychoactive substances recovered
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), have arrested a notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin, who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, headquarters of Owan East local government area of Edo state.

In a weekly report signed by the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, yesterday in Abuja, the suspect was arrested on Tuesday 7th November at his base in Afuze following credible intelligence. As at the time of his arrest, a wooden box used to conceal illicit substances including 18 pinches of methamphetamine, one block and 71 wraps of cannabis, was recovered from him.

In Edo state, the NDLEA on 6th November recovered 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480kgs from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West LGA, while 231 kgs of the same substance was seized in another raid in Utese forest in Ovia North East LG.A was also raided same day with 231.5k and a cannabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectare destroyed.

A Toyota Corolla car marked TZG 97 KY loaded with 30, 899 Tramadol 225mg and 100mg pills concealed inside the body compartments was intercepted in Adamawa state by operatives on patrol along Ngurore-Yola road on Thursday 9th November.

The driver, 25 years old Sani Samaila also known as Isa, said he was bringing the consignment from Jalingo, Taraba State to deliver in Yola, Adamawa State. The previous day, Wednesday 8th November, a suspect, Abdullahi Sani also called Danfulani was arrested at Ngurore town in possession of some quantity of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa in a white nylon.

He thereafter led operatives on a follow up operation to the home of a drug lord, Alhaji Bubakari, popularly called, Dan Mamuda, an unrepentant ex-convict, where 19 blocks of compressed cannabis that weighed 13kgs were recovered.

In Ogun state, at least 18.875 tons of cannabis sativa on 7.55 hectares farmland was destroyed. 100 jumbo bags weighing 1,100 kilograms of the psychoactive substance were also recovered at James town, Ogunmakin area of Obafemi Owode LGA on Monday 6th November by a combined team of NDLEA operatives and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Corps, Defence Intelligence Agency and the State Security Network, Amotekun. Okpor Chukwuma alongside six other male suspects found on the farmland was arrested.

In another arrest, a commercial bus driver, Olayinka Sowo, 25, was on Friday 10th November nabbed along Ibadan – Akure expressway over alleged conspiracy to transport 45.150kgs cannabis from Lagos to Osun state.

NDLEA officers in Abuja on same day intercepted 7, 980 pills of diazepam and 567 bottles of codeine syrup in a commercial bus along Abaji-Abuja highway after which a follow up operation at Zuba motor park led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Ugwu Ikenna, 30.

Also in Delta state, NDLEA personnel backed by men of the Nigerian Army stormed a remote forest in Umuchime community, Ndokwa West LGA where they destroyed 12.5 tons of cannabis on five hectares of farmland, and recovered 53.22kgs processed weeds and seeds of the substance.

Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, (CEO), of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba-Marwa (Retd), while commending the officers and men in the states, urged them to sustain and intensify the War Against Drug Abuse, (WADA), towards drug supply and drug demand reduction.