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How Man Who Sold Illicit Drugs In Wheelchair, Ex-Convict, Others Were Arrested In NDLEA Raids

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Details have emerged on how the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, ND­LEA, arrested an alleged notorious drug dealer, 45-year-old Godwin Emuneyin who is physically challenged who used 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.

The suspect was arrested on November 7 at his base in Afuze following credible intelligence.

Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Di­rector, Media & Advocacy, disclosed this in a release, adding that 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 other interdiction opera­tions in Edo State, NDLEA oper­atives on Monday, 6th November, recovered 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480kgs from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West LGA, while the Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA was also raided same day with 231.5kgs of the substance recovered and a can­nabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectare destroyed.

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Babafemi also said in Ad­amawa State, operatives on patrol along Ngurore-Yola road on Thursday 9th November in­tercepted a Toyota Corolla car marked TZG 97 KY loaded with 30, 899 Tramadol 225mg and 100mg pills concealed inside the body compartments of the car.

The driver found in posses­sion of the drug exhibits, Sani Samaila (a.k.a Isa Male), 25, 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 (a.k.a 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 (a.k.a Dan Mamuda), an unrepentant ex-convict, where 19 blocks of compressed cannabis that weighed 13kgs were recov­ered.

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In Ogun State, according to Babafemi, not less than 18.875 tons of cannabis sativa on 7.55 hectares farmland were de­stroyed and another 100 jumbo bags weighing 1,100 kilograms of the psychoactive substance recovered at James town, Ogun­makin area of Obafemi Owode LGA on Monday 6th November, by a combined team of NDLEA operatives with officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safe­ty Corps, Defence Intelligence Agency and the State Security Network, Amotekun. Okpor Chukwuma and six other male suspects found on the farmland were arrested.

While a commercial bus driv­er, Olayinka Sowo, 25, was ar­rested on Friday 10th November 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, he said.

In Delta State, he said ND­LEA operatives 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. A sus­pect, Christopher Anim (alias Ogidi) was also arrested in the course of the operation. Two suspects: Amarachukwu Eu­gene, 32, and Abdulaziz Auwal, 25, were arrested in another op­eration by operatives in Kano with 202 blocks of cannabis weighing 113.1kgs on Tuesday 7th November.

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In the same vein, Commands across the country intensi­fied their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy lectures. These include: Sensitisation lec­ture for students of Government Commercial Secondary School, Wudil, Kano state; WADA advo­cacy visit to Zamfara state gov­ernor, Dr. Dauda Lawal in Gusau; WADA sensitisation lecture for students of George Burton Me­morial School, Ilesa, Osun state and similar lecture delivered at Kenneth Dike Secondary School, Awka, Anambra state, among others.

Oborevwori Expresses Concern Over Growing Hard Drug Abuse, Tasks NDLEA

Delta State Governor, Rt. Hon. Sheriff Oborevwori, Thursday, raised the alarm on the growing incidence of hard drug abuse in the country, saying it had become a global public health that needed to be tackled head on and called on all stakeholders to work towards its prompt effective eradication. Oborevwori stated this

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