Sokoto Village Head in NDLEA Net Over Drug Trafficking

The village head of Gidan Abba in Bodinga local government area of Sokoto State, Abubakar Ibrahim has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Ibrahim was arrested with 3kgs of cannabis sativa and 4,000 tablets of exol-5.

This was made available by the spokesperson of the agency today in Abuja, Femi Babafemi. 

Babafemi said the agency had engaged in series of operations across seven states which led to the recovery of 991,320 pills of pharmaceutical opioids, 1,251kgs of cannabis and khat, as well as 46.637kgs of methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin. 

He further disclosed that the agency intercepted 15 cartons containing 802,000 pills of tramadol imported from Dubai, UAE and Karachi, and Pakistan at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos.

Explaining further, he said: “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 added that the village head was among eleven suspects in the custody of the agency nabbed in the different operations across the country.