Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, in Auchi, Edo state, for operating an online catering service called Omachi’s kitchen, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits.
Narcotic officers of the Edo state Command of the Agency stormed her operational base at 1 winners way, Auchi, on Saturday June 19, 2021, following intelligence and surveillance, where she was arrested and at least 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis sativa were recovered.
The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement released to journalists on Tuesday.
Chioma, a 26-year-old graduate of Medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, Enugu State, recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
During interrogation, she confessed to baking the cookies with skunk.
In another operation, one 30-year-old Emmanuel Ehiramhen, of No. 10 Egan Street Ekpoma, was arrested by officers of the Edo Command of the Agency for dealing in cocaine.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Kwara State have arrested a 52-year-old former Soldier, Ibrahim Musa, with 12.167 kilograms of Arizona (cannabis sativa), 4 grams of Cocaine and 25 grams of flunitrazepam.
Musa was arrested on Thursday June 17, 2021 at Oke-Odo, Tanke area of Ilorin metropolis when he arrived from Lagos to supply his customers.
Sgt Ibrahim Musa who formerly worked in the maintenance department at Abati Army Barracks, Lagos State, from where he was deployed to 117 Battalion in Chibok, Borno State before he deserted the Army, had arrived Ilorin in company of his wife, Basirat Musa in his Honda Accord car with registration number JJ 707 BL Lagos with the seized exhibit.
He was arrested by operatives of Kwara State Command of the Agency at the point of delivery.
Under interrogation, Ibrahim revealed that while at Chibok he got the connection of a supplier of Arizona (Cannabis) and other drugs in Lagos who he immediately contacted when he deserted the Army in October 2020.
He said he decided to go into the illicit drug business to enable him take care of his two wives and three children. The suspect revealed that the latest delivery was his second trip to Ilorin to deliver the drugs and decided to travel with one of his wives who was not aware of his mission to Ilorin.
Reacting to the arrests, the Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the Edo and Kwara state Commands of the Agency for their vigilance and commitment to the goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of illicit drug trafficking and abuse.
