The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Sunday announced the arrest of two Ghanaians, Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana, and 11 other suspects for drug-related offences in different parts of the country.
In a statement on Sunday, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi said that NDLEA officials intercepted two imported consignments of a strong strain of cannabis known as loud, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
He also said that based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives ambushed a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1 kilogrammes along the Epe-Lekki Expressway in the early hours of Monday, 19th June.
Babafemi said the driver jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security van escorting the truck conveying the drug exhibits, adding that the anti-narcotics officers demobilised the truck.
The NDLEA spokesman explained further that the following day, officers of the marine command of the agency while acting on intelligence, intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910 kilogrammes around Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana.
Babafemi said: “Two Ghanaians, Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, found with the consignments, were promptly arrested. In Niger State, two suspects, Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were arrested on Sunday, 18th June, along Abuja Expressway, Suleja, with 31 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 517 kilogrammes, while 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday, 21 June, at Ogbogodo village, Dekina Local Government Area (LGA) of Kogi State.
“A suspected fake female security agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was also nabbed at Ajegunle, in the Asa Dam Area of Ilorin, Kwara State, with 30kg of cannabis on Thursday, 22nd June, while in Oyo State, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 49.2kg of same substance on Saturday, 24th June in Oyo town.
“Operatives in Edo State stormed Ekudo Forest, Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67 kilogrammes and arrested six suspects including Onyeka Onyedinma, Monday Onyedi, Alex Eboh, Edosa Imariagbe, Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday, 19th June”.
