Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a 72-year-old grandma Mrs. Christy Ejaro with sachets of skunk packaged in retail size.
According to statement released by the agency that she was arrested at Niger CAT area of Warri, Delta state.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives at the Seme border area of Badagry in Lagos on Tuesday 24th June intercepted a 26-year-old Beninese Vode Jean-Luck while trying to smuggle 69 balls of skunk, a strain of cannabis with a gross weight of 29.5kg, from Benin Republic into Nigeria.
In Kwara state, a notorious drug dealer Mary Bolanle Oladele (a.k.a Iya Nafi) was arrested on Wednesday 25th June when NDLEA operatives raided her base in Omu-Aran in Irepodun Local Government Area where various quantities of skunk, tramadol and flunitrazepam were recovered from her.
The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week. Some of them include: WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of Yakubawa Model Primary School, Zango, Katsina; Police Secondary School, Igboora, Oyo; Divine Favour International Group of Schools, Bende LGA, Abia; Command Day Secondary School, Ojoo, Ibadan; Mater Dei College, Udi, Enugu; Community Girls Secondary School, Yenagoa, Bayelsa; and Fiyinfolu High School, Ikole Ekiti, among others.
While commending the officers and men of MMIA, AIIA, Delta, Kwara, and Seme Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) equally praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
