NDLEA intercepts 18 pieces of pump action in Kogi

The vigilant operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday intercepted 18 pieces of pump action along Okene – Lokoja highway.

The arms were intercepted during a stop and search on Saturday, 17th September, 2022 and the suspects were immediately arrested and detained.

The operatives said, the 18 pieces of pump action rifles and 1,300 cartridges in a J-5 bus which was coming from Onitsha enroute Kaduna-Zaria was intercepted.

The anti-narcotics agency gave the names of suspects as Chukwudi Aronu, 51, and Shuaibu Gambo, 23.

In a statement which was issued on Sunday by the Spokesman of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi and obtained by CAPITAL POST in Abuja, he revealed that “another suspect named Anthony Agada, 37, who was traveling to Abuja conveying 1,000 cartridges, was also arrested on the same day.”

“In another operation by NDLEA operatives, 1,404 bottles of codeine syrup and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized from a vehicle coming from Onitsha enroute Sokoto, with the receiver, Stanley Raymond, 39, and the sender, Shadrack Ifediora, 46, arrested in follow-up operations in Sokoto and Anambra respectively.

“Also, operatives of the NDLEA, on Tuesday, September 13, intercepted another trafficker, Chukwu Kingsley, on his way to Rome, Italy on an Asky Airline flight.

“A search of his luggage shows he had concealed among food condiments 11,460 tablets of tramadol 225mg with a gross weight of 5.7kg and 39 bottles of codeine syrup.

“The 49-year-old suspect is a known haulage agent who hails from Oru West local government area of Imo State.

“Also, at the Lagos airport, a freight agent, Lawal Adeyemi, was arrested same day for attempting to export some sachets of lexotan among other non-controlled drugs to Liberia, while operatives equally seized 593.90 kilograms of khat leaf at the NAHCO import shed of the airport on Thursday, September 15 after a joint examination of the cargo by a combined team of security agencies.”