Youth Corper Arrested For Importing Drug-Laced Candy From The UK

A 22-year-old youth corps member, Arnold (surname withheld), has been arrested in Abuja for allegedly importing 4 kilogrammes of drugged candies from the UK, simply as operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted in Lagos cookies laced with medicine going to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

The youth corps member serving with a authorities company in Abuja was arrested on Saturday, August 28, following the interception of a consignment on the warehouse of a transport firm.

A managed supply of the parcel which accommodates the candies laced with Arizona, a robust variant of hashish and a few liquid, was subsequently carried out. In the identical vein, operatives hooked up to courier firms in Lagos have intercepted 1.2 kilogrammes of hashish hid inside locally-made cookies going to Dubai and 920 grammes of cocaine hidden inside artificial hair heading to Saudi Arabia.

One other 1.08 kilogrammes of hashish hid in spray cans going to Pakistan and 625 grammes of methamphetamine hidden in clothes heading to Australia had been additionally seized.

Throughout the states, operatives additionally intensified arrests of traffickers and seizures of illicit medicine.

A complete of 384.7 kilogrammes of various narcotics being transported to the nation’s capital, Abuja on the market had been intercepted and seized at patrol factors in Lokoja, Kogi State on Monday, August 30 and Thursday, September 2.

A truck pushed by a 50-yearold, Danlami (surname withheld), coming from Onitsha, Anambra State, with Abuja as vacation spot, was intercepted at a patrol level in Lokoja and upon a search, the next psychoactive substances had been found packed in sacks and cartons: 1,975 bottles of cough syrup with codeine weighing 282 kilogrammes; 199 packets of Exol-5 tablets weighing 75.4 kilogrammes; 250 packets of Diazepam tablets weighing 15.4 kilogrammes; Hashish Sativa weighing 5.9 kilogrammes and one packet of Ketamine injection, all weighing 378.7 kilogrammes.

Additionally on Thursday, a Toyota Hiace bus coming from Ojota, Lagos to Abuja was stopped and searched on the Lokoja patrol level, the place six kilogrammes of Arizona was discovered sealed in cartons and stuffed in a white sack.

Different states had been seizures and arrests had been made embody Rivers, Kano, Nasarawa and Ebonyi Reacting to the arrests and seizures up to now week, NDLEA chairman/chief government, Brigadier-Normal Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) recommended the commanders, officers and males of the instructions for preserving the flame burning and sustaining the warmth on drug traffickers and sellers.