Olayiwola Matthew
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested three persons living with disabilities for alleged drug trafficking in separate operations across Anambra State and Kwara State. This was revealed on Sunday in a statement by the Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, where he said operatives acting on intelligence tracked 60-year-old Romanus Nwabara to Akpaka Forest in Onitsha, Anambra State.
The suspect was arrested with 250 grams of skunk packaged in retail sachets. In a separate raid in Ogbunike, also in Anambra, officers arrested 25-year-old Amos Kenneth, another suspect living with disability, with 160.3 grams of Tramadol, 80 pills of Diazepam, 38.23 grams of Exol-5, and 176.93 grams of skunk. In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Bode Saadu intercepted a commercial vehicle and discovered 6.3 kilograms of skunk concealed in a brown school bag belonging to a passenger identified as Usman Salisu, who is also living with disability.
The agency’s most significant seizure came in Lekki Phase 1, where operatives of NDLEA’s Special Operations Unit raided a mansion allegedly being used as a drug stash house. During the operation, officers recovered 4,000 parcels of “Loud,” a potent imported strain of cannabis, weighing 2,326 kilograms and estimated to have a street value of over N5.815 billion. Two Mercedes-Benz buses and designer packaging materials believed to be used for retail distribution were also seized from the property.
Elsewhere, NDLEA officers arrested 38-year-old Emmanuel Osita Okeke in Nyanya-Karu, Nasarawa State, with 129 kilograms of skunk.
