AFTER previous attempts to nab Madam Queen, a notorious drug dealer, the Sokoto state Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the weekend confirmed her arrest along 18 others in a latest operation it carried out in Sokoto.
Briefing reporters on the break- through, the agency’s state Commander, Mr.Yakubu Kido said Queen as popularly known, had been in the most wanted list of the agency’s state command for over a decade. The notorious Madam Queen , according to the Commander was residing at Raymond village in Dange Shuni Local Government Area of Sokoto State before her arrest on February 28, 2020 in the same village where Pentazocine injection among others were also found in her possession.” Pentazocine injection is topping the chart as a class ‘A’ of prohibited and illegal drugs worldwide”, Kido said.
The seizures, he explained , include tramadol diazepam, pentazocine injection and 134.128kg of cannabis Sativa while adding that ” a popular hotel in the state capital was raided along some drugs black spots within he metropolis in the month of February.”