NDLEA Arrests 75-Year-Old Drug Peddler

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 75-year-old grandpa, Usman Bokina Bajama alongside 21 other suspects in operations across seven states in the country for drug peddling. 

The spokesman NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this on Sunday in Abuja.

According to Babafemi, during the operations over a million bottles/capsules of banned new psychoactive substance, Akuskura and tramadol, as well as over 2,536 kilograms of cannabis, were seized.

He said over 10 hectares of cannabis farms were also destroyed in Edo and Adamawa States.

Babafemi also noted that in Kwara State, at least 19,878 bottles of the banned new psychoactive substance, Akuskura were intercepted by NDLEA operatives along the Ilorin-Jebba highway on Wednesday, September 21 and two suspects Oladokun Oluwaseun, 49, and Ibrahim Jimoh, 27, were arrested.

"They claimed the consignment packed in 35 jumbo sacks was loaded in Ibadan, Oyo State and meant for distribution in Jos, Plateau State,” Babafemi said.