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Speaker 1: Nigeria Anti Illicit Drugs Police the National Drug Law Enforcement

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Agency ndl EA have arrested two pilgrims who ingested quantities

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of cocaine at Malamaminu Karno International Airport in Karno’s State,

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alongside their sponsors who had planned to travel to Saudi

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Arabia for the twenty twenty five Haj. Details of the

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report and other news as made available by Femi Babafemi,

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the Director of Media and Advocacy Department of the National

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Drug Law and Enforcement Agency NDLA reads verbatim below. Operatives

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of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA have uncovered

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and dismantled a syndicate that sponsors Haj pilgrims who also

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serve as couriers to move cocaine to Saudi Arabia during pilgrimage.

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This followed the arrest of leaders of the Kartel in Karno.

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The arrest of the kingpins Abu Bakamahammad abdul Jeki, Mohammad

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Tajani and Muhammad aj Shigaba on Tuesday twenty seven and Wednesday,

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the twenty eighth of May twenty twenty five in Karno

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was a follow up to the arrest of two pilgrims,

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Ibrahim Muma Mustafer and Muhammad Saraj Shifado at the Malam

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Aminu Carno International Airport, Karno on Monday the twenty sixth

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of May during the outward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian

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Airline flight eight nine hundred and forty to Jenna, Saudi Arabia.

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The interdiction of the intending pilgrims at the NDLA final

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screening point at the Krno Airport was based on credible intelligence.

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When they were taken for scanning, the result confirmed ingestion

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of illicit substances. They were subsequently placed on excretion observation,

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during which they excreted forty five wraps of cocaine each,

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bringing the total for both to ninety pellets with a

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total weight of one point zero four kilogram. Investigations soon

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unraveled their sponsors as leaders of a notorious drug trafficking

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network which specializes in trafficking illicit drugs time in Saudi Arabia.

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A swift follow up operation was carried out and the

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trio of Abu Bakha, Mohammad Abdulheki, Mohammad Tajani and Muhammad

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Aji Shigaba were arrested on Tuesday twenty seventh and Wednesday

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the twenty eighth of May twenty twenty five in Karno.

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In a related development, endl EA operatives at the Karna

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Airport on Wednesday the twenty eighth of May intercepted a

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sixty year old businessman, Shindu leonard A Kigbo during the

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outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR one four three

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two to Iran. His body scan confirmed he ingested illicit

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substances as a result of which he was placed on

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excretion observation, during which he excreted sixty five wraps of

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cocaine weighing one point four to one kilogram at the

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Port Harcourt Port’s Complex one River State. No fewer than

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seven watch listed containers were positioned for joint examination by

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ndl EA offices, men of custom service and others secure

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purity agencies between Wednesday twenty eighth and Friday the thirtieth

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of May, during which eight hundred and twenty five thousand,

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two hundred bottles of codeine based syrup and tredoll worth

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five billion, seven hundred and seventy six million, four hundred

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thousand nira. Only five billion, seven hundred and seventy six million,

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four hundred thousand niers in street value were seized. While

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a total of five million, one hundred thousand, five million,

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one hundred thousand pills of opioids, especially taped to doll

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two hundred and twenty five milligrams worth three billion, five

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hundred and seventy million nira, only three billion, five hundred

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and seventy million nyers were recovered. This brings the combined

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street value of the opioids to nine billion, three hundred

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and forty six million, four hundred thousand narra only nine billion,

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three hundred and forty six million, four hundred thousand niras

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point zero. In another operation in Carno, ndl EA, operatives

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on patrol a Longkano Madaguri Road Friday the thirtieth of

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May intercepted the duo of Abubakar Hussain forty two and

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Sahabia Damu fifty three with nine hundred thousand U S

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dollars nine hundred thousand dollars cash, suspected to be counterfeit.

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The suspects and the exhibit will be transferred to the

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appropriate agency for further investigation, while a total of three

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hundred ninety compressed blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis

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weighing two hundred seventy five point three to zerozero kilograms,

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were recovered from a park Toyota, siena vehicle marked y

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LA four zero eight g g along Ingerore Yola Road,

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Adamawa State on Tuesday, the twenty seventh of May. NDLA

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operatives in Quarah. On Saturday, the thirty first of May

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Arresteda notorious female drug dealer Alhaja Mushid Abdul Fatai at

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a Yoba area of Aloren, where various quantities of opioids

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including tramadol, flunatrazepam and codeine based syrup were seized from her.

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The War Against Drug Abuse WADA social advocacy activities by

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n d l EA commands equally continued across the country

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in the past week. Some of them include WADA Sensitization

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lecture delivered to students and staff of Government Day Senior

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Secondary School, Quisarawa, Katsina, Corpus Christi College, Achi Enugu, Apignosis

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Standard College, Anisha, Anambra Government Girls Secondary School, Utai Woodle

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Local Government Area Karno and Government Girls Secondary School Klabar

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Cross River, among others. While commending the offices and men

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of MAKIA, pH p C, Karno, Kwara and Adamawa commands

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of the agency for the arrests and sieges of the

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past week, Chairman Chief Executive Officer of n d l EA,

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Brigadier General Mohammad Baba Maawa Ret Tired, equally praised their

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counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing

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a fair balance between the drug supply reduction and drug

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demand reduction efforts. Fermi Babbafemi, Director Media and Advocacy ndl

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EA stated on Sunday, the first of June twenty twenty

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five one on medi bringing, you bring in a more

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digital way