In Zamfara, Kebbi, and Bauchi States, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) nabbed a five-member syndicate performing bogus recruiting into security services in a coordinated operation.
According to the NDLEA’s Spokesperson Femi Babafemi, the gang’s leader, Yakubu Sani, was first apprehended in Gusau, Zamfara state.
Babafemi claims that his criminal group sells bogus NDLEA job letters and identity cards for N400,000 to unsuspecting members of the public.
Another gang member, Ibrahim Isah, was arrested during a follow-up operation by the agency in Zuru, Kebbi state, while three others, Dahiru Musa Limanchi, Gambo Danladi, and Umar Abubakar, were apprehended in Bauchi state.
The statement read, “Recovered from them include a fake NDLEA ID card; NDLEA guarantor form; INEC offer of appointment letter; Nigerian Customs Special Replacement Form and appointment letter; Nigerian Correctional Service Replacement Form; Credentials of some Applicants; Receipts and passport photos; Five sim packs and one MTN SIM card”.
Meanwhile, drug traffickers have failed to export Tramadol, Ecstasy MDMA, and Cannabis to Milan, Italy, and Dubai, United Arab Emirates, according to narcotics officers.
The chemicals were supposed to be shipped out of Lagos State’s Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA).
Odia Emiliana Efe, a female passenger, was caught on May 9 at the Lagos airport while attempting to board a Royal Air Maroc trip via Casablanca to Milan, Italy with 1000 Tramadol 200mg tablets concealed in food items, according to the NDLEA.
It was reported that five days later, a freight agent named Kareem Ibrahim was arrested at the airport’s SAHCO cargo shed for attempting to ship food products hidden in 6.65kg of cannabis and 24 grams of the ecstasy drug MDMA to Dubai, UAE.
In Abia, Kaduna, Yobe, and Kogi state, the agency said it confiscated a total of 203, 879 pills of various pharmaceutical opioids and illicit substances in operations.
Three trucks filled with drugs from Lagos and Onitsha, Anambra States, were intercepted by agents of the agency in Abia.
“When properly searched in the presence of the owners on Wednesday 11th May, 67,100 tablets/capsules of Tramadol and 12,650 ampules of pentazocine, morphine, and dopamine were recovered,” a statement by the NDLEA Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi revealed.
On the same day, NDLEA agents in Kaduna apprehended Shehu Kabiru a.k.a Dan-Zaira, a known drug dealer. He was wanted by the Agency’s Kastina Command for bail jumping.
“Recovered from him include 45,000 tablets of Diazepam weighing 41.5kg; 50,000 tablets of Exol, weighing 15.6kg; 1,500 tablets of Rohypnol weighing 700 grams and 300 bottles of codeine weighing 41.5kg,” the statement said.
When a drug dealer’s hideout in Unguru town was searched on May 8, 7,029 Tramadol, D5, and Exol tablets, as well as 1.5kg cannabis, were recovered from Ibrahim Yakubu.
On May 11, a man named Chekiri Richard Obomanu was detained in the Eleme area of Rivers state with 207.2 kilograms of cannabis.
According to the statement, NDLEA operatives intercepted and recovered 19,600 Tramadol tablets on route from Onitsha, Anambra state, to Abuja on May 11 along the Okene/Abuja expressway in Kogi state.
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