NDLEA Arrests Pregnant Woman And 27 Others In A Raid In FCT And 12 Other States, Over Illicit Drugs

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a pregnant woman, nursing mother, a 200-level university student and 26 others with 9,437.6 kilogrammes of Cannabis sativa and 138,053 tablets of pharmaceutical opioids, among other illicit drugs.

The suspects were arrested during operations across the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) Abuja and 12 states, namely Yobe, Ondo, Edo, Rivers, Akwa Ibom, Imo, Jigawa, Kogi, Adamawa, Kaduna, Kwara, and Lagos.

In FCT, operatives stormed a village known as Chukuku, on Saturday, October 15, which is about 10 kilometers from Gwagwalada, where they raided a large Cannabis sativa warehouse.

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said a total of 510 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 5, 640kgs were recovered from the store, and a nursing mother in charge, Sa’adatu Abdullahi, 35, was arrested.

In Yobe, while operatives intercepted 48kgs of Cannabis sativa in Buni Yadi, they also raided a location in Potiskum where they recovered 56 blocks (31kgs) from two suspects: Mohammed Mamuda and a married pregnant woman, Hauwa Haruna.

At least, 99 bags of Cannabis sativa and three bags of its seeds weighing 1,286kgs were seized on Thursday, October 13 when operatives raided a location in the Ogbese area of Ondo State, while another raid at the Umukpe forest in the Uhunmonde council area of Edo State led to the seizure of 410kgs of same substance in addition to a motorcycle, two dane guns and the arrest of two suspects: Numga Anim, 30, and Friday Ebije, 50 amongst others.