During interdiction operations in five States and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT, agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, reportedly arrested a pregnant woman and a 60-year-old grandmother with other suspects.
The grandmother, Mrs. Ibinosun Sandra Esther, was detained in Ibadan, Oyo state as part of a follow-up investigation after 5.5 kg of South African-imported Loud variety cannabis was found, according to a statement from the director of media and advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
The package, which she said was brought to her by her daughter, was hidden behind two enormous speakers and came as part of a combined shipment on an Air peace flight to the NAHCO import shed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos.
In a related development, NDLEA agents also detained 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine on Saturday, November 26, hidden within custard jars packed with cosmetics and other items aboard a Qatar Airways aircraft to Brazil via Doha.
Both the cargo agent Salako Omolara Fausat, who carried the suitcase with the illegal substance to the airport, and Anyanwu Christian, a planned passenger for Brazil, were quickly taken into custody.
Following this, 100,000 Royal brand Tramadol 200mg tablets with a gross weight of 68.90 kg were seized at the SAHCO import shed after being imported from Karachi, Pakistan aboard Ethiopian Airlines.
81 giant bags of cannabis totaling 1,278kg were found when agents attacked the warehouse of infamous drug kingpin and ex-convict Ibrahim Momoh, alias “Ibrahim Bendel,” in Abuja. Momoh had escaped from prison custody to resume his criminal activities.
Richard Forson Gordon, a 55-year-old Ghanaian who worked as the drug dealer’s warehouse keeper, was detained even though the fleeing drug dealer is still at large and on the Agency’s wanted list.
Ibrahim Momoh was detained on November 27, 2014 with the same material weighing 385.1kgs, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on April 22, 2020, but escaped barley three months into serving his jail term.
On Saturday, December 3, operatives in Rivers state nabbed a 29-year-old pregnant lady, Kate Ibinabo, with 34.4kgs of cannabis sativa in the Okrika region of the state.
However, the Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (Retd), has decided that she be granted administrative release till she delivers her baby and then return for prosecution because she was in her ninth month of pregnancy at the time of her arrest.
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