Abubakar Ibrahim, the village head of Gidan
Abba in Bodinga Local Government Area of
Sokoto State, has been arrested.
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The 38-year-old man was arrested by
operatives of the National Drug Law
Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for drug
trafficking.
The spokesman of the agency, Femi
Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that
Ibrahim, who was nabbed with 3kgs of
cannabis sativa and 4,000 tablets of
exol-5. He was among 11 suspects
arrested in interdiction operations in which
991,320 pills of pharmaceutical opioids
and 1,251kgs of cannabis and khat, as well
as 46.637kgs of methamphetamine,
cocaine and heroin, were recovered by
NDLEA operatives across seven states.
According to him, at the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja
Lagos, NDLEA operatives attached to the
SAHCO import shed on Wednesday 26th
October intercepted 15 cartons containing
802,000 pills of Tramadol imported from
Dubai, UAE and Karachi, Pakistan.
“While 10 cartons of Tramadol 225mg
came in from Dubai on Ethiopian Airlines
flight, four cartons of 100mg and a carton
of 225mg Tramadol came from Karachi,
Pakistan on another Ethiopian Airlines
flight,” Babafemi said.