A grandmother was among many others arrested in the last one week by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency nationwide.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement he issued to newsmen on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, in Ekiti State, two suspects: Olanrewaju Alale, 48, and Babatunde Kayode Ijadahun, 55, were arrested along Ise-Emure Road in a J5 bus marked EPE 958 XJ while transporting 108 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1, 323 kilograms to Owo, Ondo State, from where they claimed the consignment will be moved to the North for distribution.
Another suspect, Adekunle Yusuf, 33, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives with 704 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance, concealed in white sacks on December 6, 2024 at Idere Road, Igboora, Oyo State.
In Lagos State, a grandmother, 65-year-old Ramata Bola Adeyemo, was on December 6, 2024 arrested by NDLEA operatives at 62, Odunfa Street, Lagos Island, where 20.6 litres of codeine-based syrup were recovered from her.
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Also arrested in Lagos was Alhaji Lawan Manga, who was picked up at Ogundana Street, Ikeja on December 5, 2024 while 4.7kg cannabis and 1.3kg tramadol were recovered from him.
With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse sensitisation lectures to schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities among others in the past week.
These include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Progressive Secondary School, Ado Awaye, Oyo State; Muslim Grammar School, Ede, Osun State; Government Girls College, Maiduguri, Borno State; Community Secondary School, Ogale, Rivers State; Santa Maria Secondary School, Igogoro, Enugu State; and Chiranci Upper Basic Junior Secondary School, Bichi, Kano State; while Lagos State command of NDLEA organised WADA enlightenment lecture for leaders and members of NURTW, Orile Agege, Lagos, among others.
