NDLEA Nabs Law Enforcement Officer Dealing In Cocaine

Popoola Abayomi an officer of a law enforcement agency, has been arrested for selling assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun State by NDLEA officials.

The drug dealer who serves in the Lagos State Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday, June 15, 2021, after days of surveillance on his wife’s shop used as his sales point in the Camp area of Abeokuta.

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One of his salesmen, a motorcycle rider known as Ogah was trailed to the location at about 8 p.m and arrested with six pinches of Colorado weighing 1.17grammes before Popoola who has been on the agency’s watchlist, was nabbed with different illicit drugs, including codeine -17 bottles; cannabis -22.26grams; tramadol 230 -98grammes; 61 tablets of flunitrazepam -23.72grammes; 113 tablets of molly -48.16grammes and sex drops -43.92grammes.

After the arrest of the two suspects, some student union officials of the institution blocked the NDLEA team with their official vehicle. The narcotic agents however restrained themselves and after hours of the standoff, succeeded in moving the suspects to custody.

In other news, one Adelodun Kamaldeen has been arrested by operatives of the Oyo State Command of the agency at General Area, Ilorin, Kwara State following the interception of a parcel containing cocaine and heroin that weighed 10.5grammes and 4.8grammes, respectively on June 13.

The following day, two ladies; Mary Peter, 40, and Mercy Oladele, 39, were arrested at Total Garden, Ibadan when NDLEA operatives acting on a tip-off, intercepted their commercial Micra car. The two women were arrested with seven bags of cannabis weighing 77.23kg brought in from Ogbese, Ondo State, to supply a man they simply identified as Alhaji. According to them, they had earlier supplied the same Alhaji two bags before coming with the seven bags they were caught with.

On Friday 18th June, operatives of the Oyo State Command acting on intelligence also raided the residence of one Alhaji Faruq at Elebu area, Akala expressway, Oluyole LGA, Ibadan, where they recovered 43 ampoules of methylphenidate.

In Kaduna state, a drug trafficker, Segun Abraham was arrested at the Panteka area of the state on 17th June with 211.500kg of skunk heading to Kano state.

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