He added, “The operation involving hundreds of well-armed NDLEA operatives in the early hours of Tuesday, May 30, followed intelligence that a wanted drug kingpin had stored tons of the illicit substance in the forest ready for distribution to other parts of the country.
“In Kano State, two suspects, Ma’aruf Rabiu and Abubakar Mustapha, were arrested on May 30 along Zaria-Kano Road with 260 blocks of cannabis weighing 139.4kg, while Auwal Ibrahim was nabbed with 38kg of the same substance the following day along Kaduna-Abuja Road, same day 35-year-old female suspect, Bilkisu Isiya, was arrested at Birnin Yero, Kaduna in possession of 5.6kg cannabis.
“In Borno State, two suspects, Abubakar Usman and Adamu Yusuf, were arrested at Bargu village, the Shani Local Government Area, on June 3, with 165 blocks of skunk weighing 140.7kg. Their arrest was effected with military support, deep inside a fluid insurgents’ environment.” Also, a female suspect, Hauwa Ibrahim, 25, was nabbed in the same village with 6.4kg of the psychoactive substance, while another suspect, Alhaji Abubakar, 27, was arrested at Njimtilo checkpoint with 4,200 ampoules of pentazocine injection and different quantities of D5 and exol-5 tablets.
“A 30-year-old suspect, Iroko Wasiu was arrested at a drug joint at Sabo Aba-Owolowo along Oyo-Ogbomoso Expressway on May 30, and 31.2kg of cannabis was recovered from him, while two suspects – Deji Adelabu, 35, and Mutiu Salau, 37, were nabbed the following day in the Sabo area along Oyo-Ogbomoso Road and Awuro Dada area in the Orire Local Government Area of Oyo State with a total of 8kg cannabis recovered from them,” Babafemi added.All rights reserved.
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