NDLEA arrests 75-year-old grandpa, 70-year-old grandma for dealing in drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 75-year-old grandpa, Jibril Audu, with 7.5 kilograms of cannabis at Oke-asa village, Ijero-Ekiti, Ekiti state during an operation on Friday.

The Agency said a 70-year-old grandma, Tikwase Nytor, was also arrested with 15.6kg of same substance on Thursday during an operation at Achusa and International Market Road, Makurdi, Benue state.

Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Spokesman, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

He said the NDLEA also intercepted three trailer loads of opioids comprising 3.45 million pills and 344,000 bottles of codeine syrup at Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin local government area of Lagos state.

Babafemi said the consignments were loaded in two 40-foot container trucks and another 20-foot truck at the AML bonded terminal, Abule-Osun, near the International Trade Fair complex.

He said the trucks headed for a large warehouse at Abule-Ado where NDLEA officers eventually arrested the suspects and recovered the opioid consignments on Thursday, May 9.

He listed the suspects arrested with the consignment to include the warehouse agent, Cosmas Obiajulu, 51; Ridwan Balogun, 25, and Banjo Tayo, 30, both drivers of two of the trucks.

Babafemi said the third driver jumped off to escape arrest.

NDLEA operatives, on Tuesday May 7, also arrested a suspect, Nwankwo Ejike in the Coker area of Lagos where 100 litres of codeine syrup was recovered from him.

Babafemi also said 60 litres of the same substance were seized from one Clinton Akinye in the same area the same day.

“Not less than 37.5kg of cannabis sativa loaded in a Toyota Camry car was recovered from another suspect, Adegbola Segun, 47, when the car was intercepted at Mile 12 area of Lagos on Monday 6th May.

“Another consignment of opioids consisting of 59,106 pills of tramadol and different quantities of codeine syrup and Rohypnol being taken across the border to Garua, Cameroon was intercepted by NDLEA officers on Monday 6th May along Mubi-Yola Road, Adamawa state.

“Two suspects linked to the drugs: Abubakar Auwal, 39, and Adamu Abubakar, 25, (a.k.a Bamanga), a trans-border trafficker who was to take the consignment from Mubi across to Cameroon were promptly arrested.

“In Edo state, NDLEA operatives on Saturday 11th May raided the Iguiye forest in Ovia North East LGA, where a total of 11, 636.185kg cannabis was destroyed on three farms measuring 4.654474 hectares, while an additional 188kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered and a suspect, Itah Nyong, was arrested during the overnight operation,” the Agency said.