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NDLEA nabs suspects with over N100m drugs
By Kolade AdeyemiPublished TodayNewsRating: Unrated

NDLEA Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the early hours of Christmas day arrested a full truck-load of cannabis worth several millions of naira.
The MAK-truck with registration number XM 950 FK, allegedly owned by Road Network Transport Company was intercepted along Ring Road at the point of off-loading the consignment.

The trailer took off last Wednesday night from Ogbese in Ondo state.

The illicit drugs stuffed in sacks were concealed with saw-dust in a bid to deceive the narcotic agents.

Nicholas Salu-Walter, Area Commander of NDLEA in Kano also displayed two buses, one J-5 and a Gulf car arrested two weeks ago with large quantity of cannabis at entry point along Zaria-Kano Road .

Monetary value of all the illicit drugs arrested by the agency in Kano within two weeks of the yuletide was put at over N100 million.

Seventeen suspects are cooling off in the NDLEA cell in connection with the latest arrest described by Walter as the biggest haul made in the history of the Command within such period of time. Paul Keji (31) and Okebumi Yinka (23) are among those in the NDLEA net.

While Okebumi claimed to be an employee of Road Network, Paul said he was trained by the company as a driver but was sacked in January 2007, after his involvement in an accident.

"My elder brother, Hezekiah is the driver of the truck. He took ill at Ife and asked me to help him convey goods to Nasarrawa," Paul narrated, adding that he was flagged down to carry the goods at Ogbese, Ogun state, on his way back to Ife .

According to him, a man he identified as Doctor told him the bags of cannabis were garri, "we beat price and settled for N120, 000. Three policemen came to escort us out of the town. It was on the way when Doctor told me not to stop at any Police check point that I realized we might have carried illicit goods."

They however, beat all security check-points and arrived Kano , but luck ran out on them when a team of narcotic agents from Kano Command swooped on them at the wee hours of Christmas.

According to Walter, the Command has witnessed impressive results in the last two years, "and because of this feat, Kano has been ranked highest in terms of operation, arrest and prosecution."

He commended traditional rulers, community leaders and the Kano state government for their support and particularly appealed to the government to do even more as he urged it to provide more patrol vehicles for the Command.





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