*185 arrested by NDLEA in Abuja, Kano
*2 businessmen excrete 193 cocaine pellets at the Abuja Airport
By Nazif Alkali
Activities of drug barons have continued unabated forcing the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) to raid two notorious drug and arrested 185 suspects.
The operation was cartied out at black spots located at Zaro Bunk in Bama Road, Sabongari and the Sani Abacha Indoor Stadium, both in Kano metropolis.
The auapects were nabbed with different quantities of illicit substances.
Also, two suspects: Abubakar Sallau, 55, and Nazifi Abdullahi, 25, were arrested on Saturday 13th May, along Kano-Maiduguri road, with 5,000 pills of Tramadol 200mg, while a total of 65,200 tablets of tramadol and exol-5 were seized from the duo of Adamu Nagati, 30, and Ali Nasiru, 35.
This was even as operatives in Abuja also arrested 25 suspects in raids across Tora Bora, Gwarinpa village, 3rd avenue in Gwarinpa, Karamo, Garki market, Sabongari in Bwari Area Council and New Kucigoro IDP Camp, within the FCT metropolis.
Another bid to smuggle into Lagos a consignment of 24kg cannabis indica concealed in imported used cars from Canada was frustrated by NDLEA operatives who seized the illicit substances on Thursday 11th May during a joint 100% examination of a container marked, MSMU 7412069, at the Prime Connection Bonded terminal, off Oshodi-Apapa expressway.
Two clearing agents linked with the container, Chief G.O. Njokwu and Mr. Christopher Obialor, have been arrested in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Customs Service.
Also two businessmen were arrested by the NDLEA at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport (NAIA), Abuja for alleged cocaine ingestion.
Both of them have already excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody.
The traffickers: Onoh Ebere, 49, and Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji, 47, were intercepted at the Abuja airport on Wednesday 10th May upon their arrival from Uganda via Addis Ababa, onboard Ethiopian Airlines flight ET 951.
Though both suspects have businesses they manage in Nigeria, their main source of income has been drug trafficking.
The duo travelled to Uganda and from there crossed over to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where they picked the consignments before returning to Abuja with Lagos as their final destination.
After days in excretion room, Ebere Onoh excreted a total of 100 pellets weighing 2.137kg while Christian Ifeanyi Ogbuji expelled 93 pellets hidden in his stomach with a gross weight of 1.986kg.
