Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 45-year-old physically challenged man, Godwin Emuneyin, who uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances, such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, headquarters of Owan East Local Council of Edo State.
The suspect was arrested on Tuesday, November 7, at his base in Afuze following credible intelligence.
Confirming this development yesterday, spokesperson for the Agency, Femi Babafemi, said at the time of his arrest, a wooden box used to conceal illicit substances, including 18 pinches of methamphetamine, one block and 71 wraps of cannabis, was recovered from him.
In other interdiction operations in Edo State, NDLEA operatives on Monday last week, recovered 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480kgs from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West Local Council, while the Utese forest in Ovia North East Council was also raided same day with 231.5kgs of the substance recovered, and a cannabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectare destroyed.
In Adamawa State, operatives on patrol along Ngurore-Yola road on Thursday, November 9,
intercepted a Toyota Corolla car marked TZG 97 KY loaded with 30, 899 Tramadol 225mg and 100mg pills concealed inside the body compartments of the car.
The driver found in possession of the drug exhibits, Sani Samaila (a.k.a Isa Male), 25, said he was conveying the consignment from Jalingo, Taraba State to Yola, Adamawa State.
The previous day, Wednesday, November 8, a suspect, Abdullahi Sani (a.k.a Danfulani) was arrested at Ngurore town in possession of some quantity of dried weeds suspected to be Cannabis sativa in a white nylon.
He, thereafter, led operatives on a follow up operation to the home of a drug lord, Alhaji Bubakari (a.k.a Dan Mamuda), an ex-convict, where 19 blocks of compressed cannabis that weighed 13kgs were recovered.
In Ogun State, about 18.875 tonnes of Cannabis sativa on 7.55 hectares of farmland were destroyed.
Another 100 jumbo bags weighing 1,100 kilogrammes of the psychoactive substance were recovered at James town, Ogunmakin area of Obafemi Owode Local Council last Monday by a combined team of NDLEA operatives with officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Police Force, Federal Road Safety Corps (FRSC), Defence Intelligence Agency and the State Security Network, Amotekun. Okpor Chukwuma and six other male suspects found on the farmland were arrested.
While a commercial bus driver, Olayinka Sowo, 25, was arrested on Friday, November 10, along Ibadan – Akure expressway over alleged conspiracy to transport 45.150kgs cannabis from Lagos to Osun State, NDLEA officers in Abuja on same day intercepted 7, 980 pills of diazepam and 567 bottles of codeine syrup in a commercial bus along Abaji-Abuja highway after which a follow up operation at Zuba motor park led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Ugwu Ikenna, 30.
In Delta State, NDLEA operatives backed by men of the Nigerian Army raided a remote forest in Umuchime community, Ndokwa West Local Council, where they destroyed 12.5 tons of cannabis on five hectares of farmland, and recovered 53.22kgs processed weeds and seeds of the substance.
A suspect, Christopher Anim (alias Ogidi) was also arrested in the course of the operation.
Two suspects: Amarachukwu Eugene, 32, and Abdulaziz Auwal, 25, were arrested in another operation by operatives in Kano with 202 blocks of cannabis weighing 113.1kgs on Tuesday, November 7.
