Pregnant drug queen busted with cannabis, loud, others in Edo

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 25-year-old pregnant woman, Haruna Favour, in Auchi, Edo State, with various quantities of drugs.

The drug quuen, according to Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman, was nabbd on Friday 9th Sept, with 82 pinches of methamphetamine, as well as various quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine based cough syrup.

Babafemi also disclosed that eagle-eyed operatives of the agency in Gombe recovered one Hundred and Nineteen Thousand (119,000) tablets and capsules of tramadol, D5 and Exol5 were recovered from two drug dealers, Nasiru Abubakar, 22, and Umaru Bayero a.k.a Hadiza when NDLEA operatives raided their stores at the Gombe main market on Tuesday 6th Sept.

He said: “Attempts by drug cartels to export 7.805 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine to the United States and Australia have been thwarted by NDLEA operatives attached to some courier companies in Lagos. The meth consignments were concealed in the linings of local fabric, wooden statutes, printer cartridges, handle of travel bag and cassava flakes.

“In Kogi, a suspect, Paul Ali, 47, was arrested along Okene-Abuja highway with 1,404 bottles of Codeine based syrup weighing 190.94kg and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection coming from Onitsha to Sokoto. A follow up operation in Sokoto has also led to the arrest of the receiver of the consignment on Tuesday 6th Sept.

“A raid at the cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo LGA, Ondo State has led to the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25; and Obinna Okechukwu, 35, where sixteen (16) bags of the illicit substance weighing 179.5kg were seized from them.

Meanwhile, chairman/chief executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the officers and men of the anti-narcotic agency for their resilience. He charged them and their compatriots in other commands to remain focussed and vigilant in their areas of responsibility.