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Agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 27-year-old drug queen, Ms. Opoola Mujidat, for planting drugs hidden in fetish bowls, using scary indigenous black soap and sponge on two Oman-bound male passengers at the departure hall of the airport. Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, MMIA, Lagos.
Agency spokesman Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday, July 17 that passengers: Raji Babatunde Kazeem and Akinbobola Omoniyi were traveling together to Oman, Middle East on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on Monday, July 11 when they were intercepted by NDLEA agents at the airport.
A search of their luggage revealed cannabis sativa wrappers hidden in bowls of native black soap and sponge wrapped in a food bag that Kazeem was carrying.
Both Kazeem and Omoniyi immediately warned the anti-narcotics officers that Mujidat, who was still nearby, gave the bag containing the illegal substance to them at the airport. She was promptly arrested. The lady took responsibility and stated that she had brought the luggage for the two passengers to give to her husband in Oman.
Mujidat, who is from Oyo East LGA, Oyo state, confessed in a preliminary interview that the food bag had been packed by her with several items, including the black soap used to hide the illegal substance.
In Nasarawa state, NDLEA agents intercepted more than 91 jumbo bags of cannabis, weighing 1,029.5 kg hidden in a truck-mounted natural gas tank by
Doma road, about 500 residential areas, Lafia. A 52-year-old suspect, Ernest Ojieh, was arrested in connection with the seizure on Saturday, July 9.
This was just four days after Agwan Doka agents, Lafia, seized 38 big bags of the same fabric with a total weight of 367 kg. Two suspects: Abdullahi Iliyasu, 30, and Bashir Mohammed, 29, were arrested over the seizure.
In Kaduna and Adamawa, more than half a million pills containing pharmaceutical opioids were seized and suspects arrested in raids in the two states. In Kaduna alone, 294,400 pills of Tramadol and Diazepam were seized from: Shaban Nasir, Aminu Usman and Shamsudeen Hussaini, along the Abuja-Kaduna highway, as well as Sa’idu Yahaya and Umar Abubakar, during a follow-up operation in Kano, all on Friday 15 July.
In a similar vein, more than 227,000 different types of Tramadol tablets were seized during the raid on a patent drug store in Sabon Layi, close to Mubi’s main market, Mubi North LGA, Adamawa State on Sunday, July 3. Recovered from the store where a suspect, Nasiru Abubakar, 27, was arrested, including Tramadol 250mg (aka Boko Haram); Royal Tramadol 225mg (aka Vectra); Tramadol 225mg (aka Jan Dara); Tramadol 200mg (aka Dogari); and Tramadol 100mg (aka green), among others. Another suspect, Idris Adamu, 25, was also arrested in a shoe store in the same Sabon Layi, where more than 5,000 tablets of Tramadol 225 mg were recovered from him.
While praising the officers and men of the MMIA, Nasarawa, Kaduna and Adamawa commandos for the arrests, seizures and their agility, NDLEA President Brig. Gene. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) warned the drug cartels that regardless of the ingenuity of their concealment ways, the Agency’s dedicated staff will always reveal them and their tricks.