The three suspects, Favour Peter (24), who is eight months pregnant, Esther Adukwu (27), and Ochigbo Michael (39), were detained at Jabi Park.
This was announced in a statement posted on the organization’s website on Sunday and signed by Femi Babafemi, the director of advocacy and media for the organization.
The statement read, “Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a commercial bus conveying N3.2m counterfeit cash owned by three suspects: eight-month pregnant Favour Peter, 24; Esther Adukwu, 27, and Ochigbo Michael, 39, who were arrested at Jabi park in Abuja in a follow up operation on Tuesday, April 9 following the seizure of the fake naira notes in Lokoja, Kogi State.
“This is even as NDLEA officers in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Navy Ship Lugard Base, Lokoja intercepted 37-year-old Aliyu Lawal along Lokoja-Abuja Road on Monday, April 8 and recovered 620 blocks of cannabis weighing 310kg from him, while 10 sacks of the same psychoactive substance weighing 98kg were seized along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway by the NDLEA operatives from Jama Obodo, 44, in a commercial bus coming from Ilesha, Osun State enroute Taraba State on Wednesday, April 10.
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“In Cross River State, a 40-year-old widow and mother of two, Mrs. Theodora Ita, was on Monday, April 8 arrested at Bassey Edom, Calabar, by the NDLEA operatives for producing and selling a lethal new psychoactive substance, NPS, locally called ‘Combine’, which is a mixture of different strains of cannabis and opioids soaked in raw gin.
“As at the time of her arrest, 18 litres of the dangerous substance in used paint drums were recovered from her. In her statement, she claimed she started the illicit drug production and distribution in October 2023. Another suspect, Godwin Okon Samuel, 48, was apprehended at Essit Ebum area of Calabar with 39.4kg of cannabis sativa on Tuesday, April 9.”
The statement states that on Tuesday, April 9, two suspects—Sani Mohammed, 43, and Christopher Eze, 64—were taken into custody in Kano’s Sabon Gari neighborhood after 900,000 opioid pills were found on them.
On Friday, April 12, while on patrol along Owerri-Onitsha Road in Imo State, NDLEA agents stopped a logistics truck with the license plate JGB 403XB. After a thorough search, they discovered 230 blocks of cannabis sativa, weighing 119 kg, concealed under household items.
Meanwhile, 252 kg of cannabis were seized in Ekiti state during a raid at the Ijesa Isu forest.
Four suspects were apprehended in Ondo State while loading 40 kg of the material onto a gas truck.
Additionally, the NDLEA made arrests in Ogun State (Ismaila Ogun was found in possession of 79 kg of cannabis) and Ondo State (Friday Abah was discovered in possession of 410 kg of the same substance).
