Pregnant drug trafficker, others arrested in 6 states

Haruna Favor, a 25-year old pregnant woman, was caught trafficking  82 pinches of methamphetamine in Auchi, Edo, for export to the US and Australia on Friday.

The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Besides the meth haul, quantities of Loud, Arizona, Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine based cough syrup were also found on her.

Babafemi said that the consignments were concealed in the linings of local fabric, wooden statutes, printer cartridges, handle of travel bag and cassava flakes.

“In another development, One Hundred and Nineteen Thousand (119,000) tablets and capsules of tramadol, D5 and Exol5 were recovered from two drug dealers in Gombe state.

“Nasiru Abubakar, 22, and Umaru Bayero a.k.a Hadiza were arrested when NDLEA operatives raided their stores at the Gombe main market on Tuesday Sept., 6, ” he said.

A suspect, Paul Ali, 47, was also arrested along Okene-Abuja highway, in Kogi, with 1,404 bottles of Codeine based syrup weighing 190.94kg.

He said that 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection coming from Onitsha to Sokoto was also intercepted.
“A follow up operation in Sokoto has also led to the arrest of the receiver of the consignment on Tuesday Sept., 6.

“A raid at the cannabis plantation camp in Emure forest, Owo LGA, Ondo State has led to the arrest of Monday Onoja, 20; Daniel Kehinde, 25; and Obinna Okechukwu, 35.
“Sixteen (16) bags of the illicit substance weighing 179.5kg were seized from them,” he said.