They were caught selling and distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social gatherings in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
Agents from the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency have apprehended a 20-year-old hair stylist named
Josephine Odunu and a 30-year-old dispatch rider named Edesemi Ikporo.
They were caught selling and
distributing illicit drug-laced chin-chin to school students and at social
gatherings in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.
The development was revealed by
the spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday,
detailing the weekly arrests of suspects and drugs seized by the anti-narcotics
agency.
Babafemi noted, “NDLEA officers
on patrol around the Opolo area of Yenagoa had on Sunday, March 10, 2024,
intercepted the motorcycle dispatch rider, Edesemi, and recovered 200 grammes
of chin-chin produced with Cannabis Sativa, which he was on a mission to
deliver to a buyer.
“A swift follow-up operation
led to the arrest of the hairdresser, Josephine, who distributes the drugged
chin-chin from the salon where she works in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa.
“A search of the salon also led
to the recovery of 3.00kg, bringing the total weight of the illicit substance
seized from the duo to 3.2kg.
“Investigations reveal that
they distribute the chin-chin often laced with cannabis and tramadol to
students and at birthday parties. While Edesemi handles the delivery to buyers,
Josephine is a major distributor to a wanted suspect who produces the drugged
chin-chin.”
The statement further revealed
that NDLEA operatives in Adamawa State on Wednesday, March 13, “arrested two
wanted suspects – Ajim Samuel (aka Boss), 30, and Davidson Joshua (aka
Dantala), 36, while on their way from Onitsha, Anambra State where they had
gone to buy a consignment of tramadol containing 14, 428 pills of the opioid
which they tucked in the body compartments of their black Honda Civic car
marked YLA 623 SL.
“They were nabbed along the
Numan-Jalingo road. Also recovered from them were 21 grammes of cannabis and
monetary exhibits totalling N19,280.”
The spokesperson for the
anti-narcotics agency added that in Osun State, “a 49-year-old commercial bus
driver, Ogunleye Adegoke, was arrested along Gbongan-Ibadan road after NDLEA
operatives discovered 2,000 capsules of tramadol, 60 tablets of Rohypnol and 10
bottles of codeine syrup concealed in the spare tyre compartment of his
vehicle.
“Meanwhile, a total of 343,000
pills of opioids were seized by NDLEA officers from a suspect, Lawan Abubakar,
33, in Azare town, Katagum, Bauchi State on Friday, March 15, as the Nigerian
Army transferred a suspect, Muhammadu Rabi’u, 37, with 64,000 pills of tramadol
recovered from him to the Bauchi State command of the NDLEA on the same day.”
Babafemi added that “at least,
24kg of cannabis was seized from the driver of a transport company, Ikechukwu
Obialo, at Sagamu Interchange, Ogun state by NDLEA operatives on Wednesday,
March 13, while in Kano, two suspects: Ali Amadu, 27, and Adamu Hassan, 33,
were nabbed with a total of 125.3kg cannabis; 3,400 pills of tramadol; and 30
bottles of codeine syrup.
“They were arrested on Monday,
March 11, at Gadar Tamburawa area, and Friday, March 15, at Tsamiya Babba,
Hotoro, respectively.”
“While 118 kilograms of
cannabis were recovered from a warehouse in Masaka area of Nasarawa state on
Saturday, March 16, NDLEA operatives in Edo state on Thursday, March 14,
arrested a suspect, Kole Samuel, 50, with 75kg of same psychoactive substance
at market area, Otuo, Owan East LGA. Same day, operatives raided the Oloma-Okpe
forest in Akoko Edo LGA, where they destroyed 3,944.2075 kilograms of cannabis
on 1.577683 hectares of farmland,” the statement read.
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