- ‘I wanted to raise N5m ransom to free my mother from bandits’
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a female passenger Jatau Lydia Lami at the Lagos airport for attempting to export 1,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in her luggage to Istanbul, Turkey via a Turkish Airline flight on Sunday 31st July.
NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
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“Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect, a mother of three, hails from Zango Kataf LGA, Kaduna State and lives in Istanbul, Turkey with her family.
“She blamed her action on pressure to raise N5million ransom to free her mother from the captivity of bandits who kidnapped her since June,” the statement said.
In Zamfara, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 4th August intercepted a truck from Benin, Edo State enroute Sokoto with 50,000 tablets of Diazepam owned by a drug dealer, Umaru Attahiru.
In Kogi, 14 sacks containing 1,376 bottles of codeine based syrup weighing 190.4kg were seized along Okene-Abuja highway on Wednesday 3rd Aug. The exhibits were found in a delivery bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra and heading to Abuja. Follow up operation in Abuja same day led to the arrest of Jude Ikenna and Ozoemene Cornelius.
In Kaduna, four suspects: Sulaiman Rabi’u; Sanusi Sha’aibu; Ma’aruf Habibu and Christian Nnachor, were arrested in Zaria, Tafa and Romi Kaduna with 106, 770 tablets of Tramadol 225mg, Diazepam, Exol-5 and 100 bottles of codeine cough syrup
