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Speaker 1: Nigeria Anti Illicit Drug Authority, the National Drug Law Enforcement

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Agency NDLA, has arrested a pastor, Prophet Adife Lashoano olisel

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A Ka Abbess Ajakaya, the General overseer of the Turn

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of Mercy Church, after waiting almost throughout all day for

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the pastor to conclude his church service before being taken

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away over alleged crime of cross border drug trafficking of

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masterminding the shipments of multiple illicit drugs from Ghana and

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other countries into Nigeria. According to NDLA, the pastor has

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been on the wanted list of the agency for months

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after he allegedly fled the country to hide in Ghana. NDLA,

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in a new statement on Sunday, said that luck ran

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out on the pastor when he returned to Nigeria and

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was arrested at the church premises after he stepped out

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at the end of the church service on Sunday, August third,

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twenty twenty five in Lagos State. NDLA said it also

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recovered three thousand, four hundred and seventy six six kilograms

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Colorado laud skunk, six hundred and forty five thousand, nine

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hundred and six pills of opioids in Nasarawa, Carno, Lagos,

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gombe Edo during raids. Details of the news reporter presented

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verbatum below. After months of fleeing abroad to evade arrest,

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the founder and general overseer of the Turn of Mercy Church,

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Prophet Adefe Lacher Arnu Olasele alias Abessadja Kaye, has been

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arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency

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endy l EA for masterminding multiple shipments of illicit drugs

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into Nigeria. Prophet Adefelascher was arrested at his church located

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in Okanaja A Gombo Road, Lecky area of Lagos on Sunday,

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the third of August twenty twenty five by n d

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l e A offices who waited for him since morning

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to conclude the Sunday worship service in the evening before

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moving in on him the moment he stepped out of

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the church premises. The arrest came after he had evaded

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arrest twice and fled to Ghana to hide since June,

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when operatives started trailing him following the seizure of two

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shipments of gharan allowed a strain of cannabis linked to him.

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The first seizure of two hundred kilograms of the psychoactive

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substance was made at Okanaja Beach on the fourth of

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June twenty twenty five, while another consignment of seven hundred

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kilograms of saint substance was recovered from his delivery van

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on the sixth of July twenty twenty five. In his statement,

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he admitted ferrying the illicit consignments through the waterways from

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Ganer into Nigeria, adding that he had fled to the

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West African country to hide after he escaped arrest twice

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in the recent past. In another operation in Lagos, ndl

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EA operatives on Thursday the seventh of August raided an

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apartment at Kishi House eleven lay a Ja Bembey Street,

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Park Viewers, STATACOI, where they arrested a suspect, Benjamin Udo

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a Coe and recovered thirty two pouches of Canadian Life,

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a strain of cannabis, with a total weight of fifteen

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point six three kilograms. In Nasarawa State, ndl EA operatives

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on Saturday the ninth of August recovered a large consignment

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of Skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing three thousand and

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ninety three kilograms from the trio of Emmanuel Lesokuo Johnny

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fifty one, Oakum Raphael thirty three and Czekubodo twenty five,

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a New Karu area of the state, while twenty nine

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year old Nura Yuhaya was nabbed at Pisa area of

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Cambotso Carno State with six hundred and thirty nine blocks

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of skunk weighing three hundred and fifty nine kilograms on Friday,

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the eighth of August. Another suspect to Umar Damuhumar twenty

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seven was taken into custody on Wednesday, the sixth of

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August by NDLA offices after seizing nine kilograms of Colorado,

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a synthetic strain of cannabis from him Alongzaria Krno Road KRNO.

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In another addiction operation in Krno, twenty thousand pills of

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tramadol and two hundred amples of diazepam injection were recovered

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from a suspect of Sman Musa thirty at Gadda Tambarawa

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Alongsaria Krno Road on Friday the eighth of August a

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raided and uncompleted building located at Tudenwaden Pantomi in Gombe Town,

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Gombe State, on Friday, the eighth of August led to

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the recovery of five hundred and fifty two hundred and

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sixty six pills of opioid’s, mainly tramadol, while a suspect,

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A sama Isa, was arrested. The following day, Saturday, the

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ninth of August, another suspect, Ibrahima Damu twenty three, was

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arrested by NDL EA offices along Patiscum Road, Badjogowit fifty

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thousand capsules of tramadol. In Edo State. A white Toyota

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hyes bus marked WYEB five thousand, five hundred and twenty

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two k, coming from a Nisha and Amra and heading

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to asan Lu in Koggi, was Wednesday the sixth of

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August inter apted at Ewu Junction Heado by NDLA operatives

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who after a search recovered twenty three, nine hundred and

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forty capsules of tramadol, one thousand, one hundred tablets of

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same opioid and four hundred amples of pentezosine injection, with

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the suspect Taie Jethro arrested in like manner commands and

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formations of the agency across the country continued their war

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against drug abuse WADA sensitization activities to schools, worship centers,

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workplaces and communities among others. In the past week. These

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include WADA Enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mines

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City College, Saki Oyo, Guaguawa Primary School, Nasarawa Local Government

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Area Karno, offices of the Nigerian Army, two hundred and

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forty one Reki Model Battalion, Inguru, Yobe, members of Engine

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Grinders Association Igboco Bunu, while the Achitti State Command of

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NDL e A paid WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian

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Correctional Service in Adua Kittee, just as the Enamra State

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Command of the agency paid a similar WADER advocacy visit

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to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly. While

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commending the offices and men of the Lagos, Nasarawa, Gombe,

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Krno and Edo Commands for the arrests Sieges and the

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Dexterity Chairman, Chief Executive Officer of NDLA, Brigadier General Mohammad

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Baba Bahwa retired and joined them and their colleagues across

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the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to

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the drug control efforts of the agency. Femi Baba Femi,

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Director Media and Advocacy, Ndlea stated this on Sunday, the

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tenth of August twenty twenty five. Ledi Quindi Bini in

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amagial