By Musa Tanimu Nasidi
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on patrol along Okene-Abuja expressway on Saturday September 17 intercepted a J5 vehicle coming from Onitsha enroute Kaduna-Zaria with 18 pieces of pump action rifles and 1,300 cartridges.
The agency therefore arrested the two suspects conveying the arms and ammunition, Chukwudi Aronu, 51, and Shuaibu Gambo, 23.
Another suspect, Anthony Agada, 37, conveying 1,000 cartridges, was equally nabbed in a bus coming from Onitsha to Abuja same day, while 1,404 bottles of codeine syrup and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized from another 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.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men of the command in Kogi for their vigilance and resilience.
He charged them and others across the country to remain focussed as they daily discharge their responsibilities.
