80-year-old woman, her granddaughter and 2 others arrested with 192kg cocaine, heroin, skuchies in Ondo (photos)

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Mary Adebayo 80-years, her granddaughter Funmilola Adebayo, and two other women Tessy Matthew and Blessing Adesida  have been apprehended by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA in Akure, Ondo State for selling illicit drugs.

They were arrested for possessing and selling cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, tramadol, swinol and skuchies.

According to the states NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, the agency was able to comprehend and make the arrests amid an intelligence-based raids and follow up operations in their area, which they discovered about 192kilogrammes of cocaine and other illicit drugs from the arrested persons last Sunday May 2.


Femi said;

''The grandma and her granddaughter were arrested at 6:30am on Sunday at Ayeyemi Street, Akure south local government area. During the early morning raid, the following were recovered from them: Skuchies- 149kg, cocaine-11grammes, methamphetamine-17grammes, heroin-3grammes, cannabis sativa- 4.914kg, swinol -8grammes and tramadol -49grammes. Also recovered from them were two deep freezers and a TVS motorcycle.

On the same date, at about 1:30pm, a raid carried out at Rate Hotel, Care Street, in Akure South LGA that led to the arrest of 25-year-old Tessy Mathew from whom 33kilogrammes of skuchies were recovered.

Following her preliminary interrogation, a follow up operation was immediately carried out, leading to the arrest of 25-year-old Blessing Adesida in Oshinle area of Akure South LGA.

Recovered from her include: skuchies-3kg and cannabis-7grammes. According to the states acting Commander of the Agency, Callys Alumona, other members of the two drug cartels have been on watch list and efforts to arrest them are ongoing.''

In another news, the Adamawa NDLEA commander Idris Bello stated it has  apprehended Victor Chinedu Anwanya, 58-years and his culprit Femi Abiodun 47-years with about 80 bricks of compressed cannabis sativa of 76kilogrammes concealed and put in three white bags and hidden in the boot of a Toyota Avalon vehicle with reg no. LAGOS DC 997 FST.

The arrest was done on Monday May 3rd, 2021 around 6:00a.m in Mayo Belwa LGA, Adamawa State.

Adamawa state Commander of Narcotics revealed that after investigation Chinedu Anwanya was discovered to be holding a fake ID that shows he is a police DSP.

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has applauded the NDLEA officers other forces working tirelessly to end illicit drug trade across the country

He stated:

''I recognise and commend the great work our officers and men in Ondo and Adamawa states have done in these operations. However, I still want to encourage them and their counterparts across the country that we must raise the ante in fighting drug criminalities in Nigeria.

We must now go beyond seizures and arrests, and dismantle the cartels because there are cartels behind each of the drugs, be it cocaine, heroin, tramadol or cannabis, there are cartels behind each of these drugs and we must identify them and rein them in, that is the next phase of this war as we continue with our maxim of offensive action'' he concluded

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