LAGOS – Another pregnant woman, Eze Joy Chioma, has been arrested with 1,442 kilograms of imported skunk during a raid by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in Lagos.
The 27-year-old was arrested on Friday, December 17, 2021, when operatives raided her store and home in the Ojo area of Lagos.
It would be recalled that a pregnant woman was apprehended recently while trying to trafficate bundles of well package hard drugs through airport to abroad.
Another suspect, Michael Oroke, was also nabbed with 29kg of the illicit drug in the same location.
The operatives also arrested Ezekwem Lawrence, Mohammed Aliyu, Suwidi Isiaku and a 62-year-old Basset Emmanuel with 182,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg after they raided a hideout in the Abule Egba area of the state on December 16.
Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday said, “In similar raids across eight other states of Rivers, Kogi, Benue, Adamawa, Anambra, Edo, Ekiti and Ondo”.
“Over 4,000 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs were seized. On Saturday 18th Dec, during a routine stop and search exercise along Aba/Port Harcourt Expressway, by Obigbo, operatives intercepted a consignment of Tramadol in a commercial Toyota Hiace Bus, with a waybill addressed to one Shadrach Udechukwu.
“A follow-up operation led to Udechukwus arrest and different quantities of Heroin, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Cannabis Sativa, Tramadol, Exol-5, Swinol, and Diazepam recovered from him.
“In Kogi State, one Timi Sunday was arrested with 95.945kg of cannabis at Egba town, and Musa Sani with 10.5kg cannabis along Okene-Lokoja Highway, while Yaro Bala was arrested with 65kg cannabis on the same road.
“No fewer than 20,000 capsules of Tramadol coming from Onitsha, Anambra state were seized in Otukpo, Benue and a suspect arrested, while in Adamawa, a search operation in a house at Ajiya Street, Jimeta led to the arrest of a female suspect, Maryam Yunusa, with 16 pinches of Cocaine.
