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NDLEA arrests 90-year-old, 2 teenagers for selling hard drugs in Katsina, Ondo

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 90-year-old man, Yusuf Yarkadir, for selling drugs to youths in his village, Yarkadir village, in Rimi Local Government Area of Katsina state.

This was revealed in a statement released on Friday, July 9, 2021, by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.

During interrogation, the Yarkadir confessed that he has been selling cannabis sativa to the youths in his community for eight years due to the high demand for the illegal substance.

The nonagenarian, who did not disclose his source of supply, however, said his arrest on Wednesday July 7, 2021 would now make him stop the business having tried to stop the illicit trade in the past without success.

Also in Ondo State, narcotic officers of the Agency arrested two teenage siblings along with other suspects for dealing in assorted illicit drugs in the state capital on Monday, July 5, 20201.

The teenagers; Onyema Sunday (16 years), and his sister, Onyema Amaka, (15 years), were arrested in Car street area of Akure with 1.894kilograms of Tramadol; while 23-year-old Kazeem Oluyede was arrested in Eru Oba area of the capital city with 300grams of cannabis and 3grams of methamphetamine.

Another lady, Maryam Musa (35 years), was arrested in Igbara-Oke, Ifedore local council area of Ondo state with 5.5kilograms of cannabis on the same day.

In the same vein, following credible intelligence and surveillance, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday July 7, stormed Ogbese market, in Akure North LGA, where Messrs Jalamia Ochonogor and Austin Uzoka were arrested with 63kilograms of cannabis.

In Bauchi state, at least seven persons have been arrested and 28.091kilograms of assorted drugs such as Diazepam, Exol-5, Rophynol, Tramadol, Codeine, and cannabis recovered from them.

The seven persons arrested in two separate raids by operatives of the Bauchi state command of the Agency were identified as Sunday Obi, Abba Abdullahi, Samuel John, Chijioke Agu, Sani Musa, Alhaji Alhaji Baffa, and Abubakar Saidu.

Meanwhile, narcotic officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations (DOGI), attached to some courier companies in Lagos State, also seized different quantities of illicit drugs going to the United States, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

In one of the courier firms, 400 grams of Ketamine hidden in walls of hair attachments carton coming from Cameroon and heading to the US was seized.

Others include: 30grams of Tramadol concealed in female headgear coming from Onitsha, Anambra state and going to the UK; 200grams of Ketamine from Cameroon going to USA; and 400grams of Methamphetamine from Asaba, Delta state heading to New Zealand.

The Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of Katsina, Ondo and Bauchi Commands as well as DOGI for their vigilance and commitment to the goal of ridding every community in Nigeria of the menace of drug abuse and trafficking.

He also charged them not to relent, but should continue to raise the bar in the ongoing offensive action against the scourge and the cartels behind them.

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