The NDLEA disclosed this in a statement signed by Femi Babafemi, its Director of Media & Advocacy on Sunday, noting that the traditional leader was arrested on Friday, July 5, with fresh cannabis plants that weighed 5kg.
The leader of Akarabata community in Ile-Ife, Osun State, Ba’ale Ige Babatunde, has been arrested with fresh cannabis plants by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the agency says.
The NDLEA disclosed this in a statement signed by Femi Babafemi, its Director of Media & Advocacy on Sunday, noting that the traditional leader was arrested on Friday, July 5, with fresh cannabis plants that weighed 5kg.
The statement reads in part, "In Osun state, the head of Akarabata community in Ile-Ife, Ba’ale Ige Babatunde, 50, was on Friday, 5th July arrested with fresh cannabis plants that weighed 5kg.
"Similarly, Kano operatives on Wednesday, 3rd July arrested a youth corps member, Yusuf Abdulrahman, 25, at Corpers’ Lodge, Sumaila area of the city, with 1.250kg of Loud.
"Two suspects: Monday Ali, 49, and Jimoh Alewi, 37, were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided Ikota forest in Ifedore LGA, Ondo State where a total of 42,500kg cannabis was destroyed on 17 hectares of farmland while 73.5kg of same substance was recovered for the prosecution of the suspects during a five-day operation that ended on Monday 1st July.
"In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Benue state on Thursday, 4th July intercepted a consignment of 350 grams of cocaine at a checkpoint along Enugu Road, Otukpo. The illicit drug was concealed in an MP3 speaker sent as a waybill parcel. A swift follow-up operation at Flight motor park in Otukpo led to the arrest of the owner, 25-year-old Odeh Anthony.
"In Abuja, the FCT, NDLEA operatives on Saturday, 6th July arrested the duo of Sanusi Mamman, 28, and Usaini Ibrahim, 20, in a vehicle along Abaji- Gwagwalada with 1,132 bottles of codeine syrup; 13, 540 pills of tramadol; 50,000 pills of diazepam and 59 pills of rophynol. The suspects claimed they were bringing the opioids from Onitsha, Anambra state.”
The agency also said it personnel “on a stop and search operation along Ngurore - Yola Road in Adamawa State on Wednesday, July 3, arrested a Chadian, Yves Ahmat Gali in a commercial bus coming from Kano to Yola”.
The suspect was found with a loud speaker used to conceal
20 compressed blocks, and nine plastic containers of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 5.200kg, NDLEA added.