Agu Amobi Spends New Year in NDLEA Custody
A Qatar based businessman, Agu Amobi, is to spend his new year in the custody of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
This followed the arrest of the businessman by anti-narcotic operatives at the departure of Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos with 1.3 kilograms of cannabis sativa.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, said the businessman was allegedly caught with the psychoactive substance, while about to board a Qatar air flight to Doha.
Babafemi said the substance seized from him was concealed in a bag of food stuff.
During interrogation, the NDLEA spokesman said the suspect claimed he had been residing in Doha, and that he bought the substance in Enugu.
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According to him, he bought the substance to assist him in paying his house rent in Doha and the school fees of his three children.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the domestic wing of the airport intercepted a carton containing a total of 72,000 pills of tramadol 250mg with a gross weight of 38.50kg.
This was closely followed with the arrest of Obi who brought the consignment to the airport for shipment to Kano.
On Christmas Day, in Yobe State, NDLEA officers on patrol along Nguru-Gashua road intercepted the trio of Musa Sani, Mohammed Ibrahim and Adamu Usman in a truck reportedly conveying 39 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 15.7kgs and 128,500 pills of opioids.
Follow-up operations the following day led to the arrest of the actual owner of the cannabis consignment, Ali Ibrahim (a.k.a Ramos), in Geidam where additional 208 blocks of the same substance were recovered from his house, bringing the total to 247 blocks weighing 94.74kgs.
Also, the owner of the seized opioids, Mustapha Goni (a.k.a Lolo) was arrested.
In Imo State, NDLEA operatives on Christmas eve, while on patrol along Owerri-Onitsha expressway, intercepted a commercial bus driven by Peter Orji, 42, with 400 bottles of codeine syrup; 7,590 pills of opioids including tramadol 225mg heading for Port-Harcourt, Rivers State.
