NDLEA Arrests Widow, Pregnant Woman Over N3.2M Counterfeit Cash, Lethal Illicit Substance

A vehicle conveying N3.2million counterfeit cash owned by three suspects: eight-month pregnant Favour Peter, 24; Esther Adukwu, 27, and Ochigbo Michael, 39, have been intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

The suspects were arrested at Jabi Park in Abuja in a follow-up operation on Tuesday 9th April following the seizure of the fake naira notes in Lokoja, Kogi state.

This was disclosed by the spokesperson of the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi.

NDLEA officers in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Navy Ship Lugard base, Lokoja, have also intercepted 37-year-old Aliyu Lawal along Lokoja-Abuja road on Monday 8th April and recovered 620  blocks of cannabis weighing 310kg from him, while 10 sacks of the same psychoactive substance weighing 98kg were seized along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja express way by NDLEA operatives from Jama Obodo, 44, in a commercial bus coming from Ilesha, Osun state enroute Taraba state on Wednesday 10th April.

While two suspects: Sani Mohammed, 43, and Christopher Eze, 64, were arrested in the Sabon Gari area of Kano on Tuesday 9th April with 900,000 pills of opioids recovered from them, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Owerri-Onitsha road, Imo state on Friday 12th April intercepted a logistics truck with registration number JGB 403XB and recovered 230 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 119kg hidden under household items after a thorough search.