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Speaker 1: Men of the Nigeria Anti Illicit Drugs Police National Drug

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Law Enforcement Agency ndl EA have arrested an eighty two

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year old woman and grandmother, missus yulomou Chechi Sunday, who

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took over the illegal business of selling illicit drugs including

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tramadol to earn a living and survive two years ago

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after her son, who was doing the illicit drugs business died.

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The grandmother, who was arrested at her home at Umuaguma

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in tiga Uzor village in Arbia State last Saturday, allegedly

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confessed to the crime, according to the NDLA. Ndl EA

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during the previous week also arrested an eighty year old

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ex convict and grandfather, Ayouba Ashiru, who just got released

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from prison after serving ten years imprisonment I elicit drugs

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offense for another drug offense barely one year after the

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ex convict was released in twenty twenty four. Ndl EA,

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in a news release last Sunday, also stated that its

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operatives during the week now the polytech students selling drugs

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to others, recovers cocaine in female headgear going to Australia,

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uncovers ak forty seven rifle magazines in May Sak. Details

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of the news release as presented by Fermi Babefemi, Director

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Media and Advocacy of the National Drug Law and Enforcement

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Agency ENDLA reads herbatum below. Ndl EA operatives in Arba

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State on Saturday the seventeenth of May raided the home

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of eighty two year old missus Uloma Uchechi Sunday at

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Umuaguma intiga Uzor Village, where different quantities of methamphetamine, tramadol

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and skunk, her strain of cannabis, as well as a

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cash exhibit of one hundred and thirty thousand, six hundred

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nyers were recovered from her and her daughter, thirty two

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year old Chisumuchechi. The grandma confessed that she and her

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daughter took over the drug trade after her son, who

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started the business died two years ago. Two octogenarians, an

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eighty year year old Grandpa Iouba Asheru, an eighty two

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year old grandma missus Yuloma Uchechi Sunday, as well as

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her daughter chisholm Uchechi thirty two, top the list of

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suspects arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement

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Agency ndl EA in raids carried out across the country.

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Wild opioids worth over three point two billion nyers were

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intercepted at a parper seaport in Lagos and Port Harcourt,

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Port on A River’s State. Auber had previously been arrested

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and prosecuted by ndl EA for drug dealing offenses, was

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convicted and served ten year jail term between twenty fourteen

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and twenty twenty four. He was again arrested on Wednesday,

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the fourteenth of May twenty twenty five at Barazana Street,

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Doggeroa area of Sabongari Lga, Kaduna State by ndl EA

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offices acting on credible intelligence. A total of two point

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three kilograms of skunk packaged in nylons and papers in

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retail sizes were recovered from him. He claimed to have

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been in the illicit drug trade for the past forty

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six years. At the Port Harcourt Port’s Complex in on

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A River State, a total of three million, three million

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pills of tapentadol and carrisopradol royal two hundred and twenty

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five milligrams worth two point one billion nyers in street

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value were intercepted in one of the containers watchlisted by

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the agency based on intelligence. The seizure was made on Wednesday,

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the fourteenth of May during a joint examination of the

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container by NDLA offices, men of Customs Service and other

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security agencies. In like manner, ndl EA operatives at the

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Apapa Seaport in Lagos on Tuesday, the thirteenth of May

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intercepted another watch listed container declared to have new car

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paths and accessories from India. During a joint examination with

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other security agencies. A total of one hundred and sixty

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nine thousand, eight hundred bar bottles of codine syrup worth

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over one point one billion nyers in street value were

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discovered concealed in the shipment. In Quarra State, no fewer

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than one hundred and ninety nine thousand, two hundred pills

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of tramadol were recovered from two suspects, Abdulwahab Quadir and

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Abdo Rae Mishmail on Friday the sixteenth of May, following

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their arrest at Gegal area of Alauren by ndl EA

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operatives who also raided Favor Lodge in the state capitol,

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where an HND one student of the Department of Laboratory

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Science Technology, Quarras State Polytechnic. Ibrahim Honada Megi Abdulaetif was

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arrested with six hundred and fifty grams of laud, a

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strong strain of cannabis already measured in one hundred and

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forty nine cups, which he sells to other students at

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a courier company in Lagos. Ndl EA offices of the

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Directorate of Operations and General Investigation DOGI on Friday, the

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sixteenth of May intercepted two one hundred and fifty grams

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of cocaine concealed in female headgear going to Australia. In

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Niger State, ndl EA operatives on patrol along Lockwood Jebber

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Road on Thursday, the fifteenth of May intercepted a Toyota

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Carina car marked AGL nine hundred and forty five BK,

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conveying three hundred and sixteen blocks of skunk weighing one

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hundred and forty three kilograms, while a suspect, Idris Kamal

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thirty five was arrested. Same day, Operatives on patrol at

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Chachi junction along Kaduna Road arrested Emmanuel Hassan twenty six

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with fourteen point three kilograms lawed. A swift follow up

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operation led to the arrest of the actual owner of

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the consignment, Bello Eliu Aliaslity thirty nine, while a sixty

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year old suspect, Welman Keengbo was nabbed by ndl EA

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offices with five hundred and ninety four point eight kilograms

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skunk of Cau area of Nasarawa State on Friday, the

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sixth steenth of May. Another suspect, Hoyanouga Tohi, was arrested

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along LeKi Epper Expressway, Legos on Thursday, the fifteenth of

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May with sixty seven point five kilograms of the same

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psychoactive substance. In Taraba State, five thousand, three hundred and

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fifty pills of tramadol and diazepam were recovered from a

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suspect Shaffiu Ishmael twenty two when he was arrested on

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Thursday the fifteenth of May at Savanden Jlingo local government area,

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while Tajani Mohammad thirty five was nabbed with one hundred

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and ninety eight kilograms skunk of malamaua Ghaki local government area,

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Jigawa State, same day, Meanwhile, ndl EA operatives on patrol

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along Abuja Kaduna Highway on Friday, the sixteenth of May

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intercepted a twenty nine year old ishmael Iso with an

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ACT forty seven rifle and two magazines concealed in a

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sack of maize. He will be transferred to the appropriate

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secure agency for further investigation. The War against Drug Abuse

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WADA social advocacy activities by ndl EA commands equally continued

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across the country in the past week. Some of them

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include WADA Sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of

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Supreme International School, fag Karno Alla Raifen International Academy, Kaduna,

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Nadado Primary School, Bukori, Katsina, ela Orangun Grammar School, Ela Orangun,

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Hosun State and students and staff of Government Secondary School

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on A River’s State, among others. While commending the offices

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and men of Dogi, Habia, Kaduna, Kwara, Phi pc A, Papa, Lagos, Nasarawa, Jigawa,

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Taraba and Nija commands of the agency for the arrests

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and sieges of the past week, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer

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of ndl EA Brigadier General Mohammad Babamawa retired, also praised

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their counterparts in all the commands across the country for

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pursuing a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and

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drug demand reduction efforts. Possasanadi bringin you brings in a

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mortgage is alway