Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) made a shocking find at three eateries in Jos, Plateau State, where freshly baked cakes produced with cannabis sativa were recovered during a raided.
The development came just as narcotics agents in Niger State arrested a 24-year-old 400-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Minna, Abel Godwin Idio for selling two strong variants of cannabis, Arizona and loud, concealed in textbooks. He was arrested in Gidan Kwano within the vicinity of the university.
The agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the drug haul in a statement on Monday, said beside the drugged cakes known as brownie, 48.726kilogrammes of assorted psychotropic substances were also seized from the eateries in Jos, the Plateau State capital.
These included Barcadin Codeine 14kg; Flunitrazapem 355.5grammes; Tramadol 370.1 grammes; Exol-5, 30kg; Diazepam 2.5kg and Pentazocine 1.5 kg, totaling 48.726kg, while five suspects have been arrested according to Ibrahim Braji, state commander of the NDLEA.
KNL Lounge located along Lamingo Road and another branch along Mining Quarters, Rantya Low Cost Estate, as well as Tuscany Lounge on Azaki Avenue, all within Jos metropolis, were some of the drug joints said to have been raided by narcotics agents.
In the same vein, Babafemi said operatives of the agency at the weekend, also raided the Nsukka axis of the state capital where a 28-year-old woman, Oodo Ndidiamaka, was arrested with 80.23grammes of cocaine and 3.81grammes of methamphetamine.
The state Commander of NDLEA, Abdul Abdullahi, said the command remains committed to unraveling other members of the drug cartel in the state.
In Niger State, NDLEA’s commander, Haruna Kwetishe, spoke on the university undergraduate’s modus operandi. “Abel uses the inner pages of his textbooks to conceal the drugs within the campus to sell before he was arrested on Friday 30th April, 2021”.
He said two other traffickers, Yahaya Joshua and Yahaya Audu, were arrested the previous day along Mokwa-Jebba road with 32kilogrammes of cannabis sativa.
Chairman of NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), commended the Plateau, Enugu and Niger commands of the agency for disrupting the activities of drug cartels in their respective states. He urged them to remain relentless in pursuit of the Agency’s mandate to rid Nigeria of illicit drugs.
