Bilkisu Mohammed Bello, who was about to board a flight to Saudi Arabia from Amino Kano International Airport, Kano, was arrested with 52 pellets of Cocaine.
Bilikisu, 45, was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on October 3, says its spokesman, Femi Babafemi.
Babafemi said while being interviewed, Bilikisu confessed that pellets of cocaine given to her to swallow before her flight were kept in a house in Farawa area of Kano.
“When she led NDLEA officers to the house, 52 wraps of the illicit substance with a total weight of 767grams were recovered,” he said.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives supported by officers and men of the Nigerian Army, Civil Defence Corps and Amotekun personnel on Tuesday 3rd October stormed James town, in Ogunmakin, Obafemi Owode local government area of Ogun state where they located and destroyed 10.38 tonnes of cannabis sativa covering over 4.152 hectares.
According to Babafemi, while on their way back from the operation, the team also intercepted a truck marked FS548XN carrying a 40ft container loaded with logs of wood. A search of the container led to the recovery of two bags of cannabis sativa weighing 20kgs while six suspects: Ahmed Yusuf, Olaniyi Babatunde, Adedeji Babatunde, Richard John, Osolale Olamilekan and Abdulazeez Saied, in the truck were arrested.
“In the same vein, operatives on Sunday 1st October raided Obi camp in Owan West LGA, Edo state where 30 sacks of skunk weighing 300kgs and concealed in charcoal were evacuated from an old dilapidated mud house.
“Similarly, two cannabis farms measuring 1.179065 hectares at Igbanke forest in Orhiowon local government area of the state were identified and destroyed on Friday 6th October while four suspects: Tersoo Zaria, 28; Ifeanyi Osai, 53; Moses David, 19, and Daniel Gabriel, 20, were arrested,” he said.
Babafemi added that while commending the officers of the Agency for their outstanding feats in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures thus creating a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
