NDLEA Arrests Dispatch Riders Distributing Illicit Drugs In Abuja

NDLEA Arrests Dispatch Riders Distributing Illicit Drugs In Abuja
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#NDLEA #Abuja #EquatorialGuinea #Gabon #Lagos ©August 5th, 2025 ®August 11, 2025 11:11 am Men of Nigeria anti-illicit drugs police, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested three dispatch riders in Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of Nigeria Federal Capital Territory, FCT, Abuja after the agency allegedly caught the dispatch riders: Sabo Sule, 24; Samuel Nnamdi, 28; and Idris Jibrin, 28, with cannabis as the three suspects were distributing the illicit substances around the city last Wednesday, while, the NDLEA operatives also arrested and intercepted cocaine, tramadol consignments in vehicle side mirrors and lipsticks during the preceding week. #OsazuwaAkonedo

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Men of Nigeria Anti Illicit Drugs Police the National Drug
Law Enforcement Agency NDLA have arrested three dispatch riders in Wurimpa,
Jahi and Guladamawa areas of nigeria Federal Capital Territory FCT,
Abuja after the agency allegedly caught the dispatch riders Sabo

(00:20):
Sule twenty four, Samuel Namdi twenty eight and Idris Jaibrin
twenty eight with cannabis as the three suspects were distributing
the illicit substances around the city last Wednesday, while the
NDLA operatives also arrested and intercepted cocaine, tramadol consignments in
vehicle side mirrors and lipsticks during the preceding week. According

(00:43):
to NDLA, the businesswoman behind cocaine in lipsticks was nabbed
while opioids concealed inside footweares were recovered at Maidaguri Airport.
Details of the reporters contained in the news release made
available by NDLA on Sunday reads verbatum below. Operatives of
the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ndl EA have intercepted

(01:08):
consignments of cocaine and tramadol two hundred and twenty five
milligrams concealed in seventy one vehicle side mirrors being sent
to Libreville, Gabon through the export shed of the Matala
Mohammad International Airport MMIA A Qujeleagos, with not less than
three suspects linked to the cargo already arrested in follow

(01:28):
up operations. The first batch of the consignment, consisting fifty
seven thousand, four hundred and twenty pills of tramadol two
hundred and twenty five milligrams and fifty seven pellets of
cocaine weighing one point six to zero kilograms, were intercepted
in a cargo going to Gabon on air Coat de
Noir on Saturday, the nineteenth of July twenty twenty five.

(01:50):
A popular cargo agent in equeme Osiniki Benedict, handling the shipment,
was immediately arrested, after which further investigation led to the
arrest of another suspect, Uzochiku Godspower Chukura, on Sunday, the
twentieth of July. Eleven parcels of cocaine with a total
weight of one kilogram were later recovered from four additional

(02:10):
side mirrors being prepared for export found in the home
of Uzochuku on Monday, the twenty first of July, bringing
the total number of parcels of cocaine to sixty eight
weighing two point six o kilograms. In a related development,
ndl EA Operatives on Friday, the first of August arrested
a businesswoman, missus Nawafa Roseanne Necker, at her shop within

(02:33):
the Trade Fair Complex a Joe Legos, following the interception
of one hundred grams of cocaine and three hundred grams
of fenesatime, a cutting agent concealed in ladies lipsticks going
to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea through the export shed of the
Lagos Airport on the tenth of July twenty twenty five.

(02:53):
Two cargo agents linked to the shipment were earlier arrested
before the eventual arrest of Necker, who runs the krimin
trade as a family business with her husband Remigus Nwafa,
currently on the run. In her statement, missus Nowafa admitted
she bought the lipsticks used to conceal the illicit drugs
while her husband handled the actual concealment in Abuja, the

(03:16):
nation's federal capital territory. NDLA operatives conducting intelligence led stop
and search operations in Guarimpa Jahi and Guladamawa areas of
the FCT on Wednesday, the thirtieth of July arrested three
dispatch riders Sabo Sule twenty four, Samuel Namdi twenty eight

(03:37):
and Idris Jaibrin twenty eight for distributing illicit substances around
the city. A total of one hundred and forty nine
point eight grams of Canadian Laud, a strong strain of cannabis,
were recovered from them. Two other suspects, ali U Abubakar
twenty five and Adakunley Agbabiaka thirty, were arrested along a

(03:59):
Baji Aguilada Expressway with ninety one point one kilograms Skunk,
a strain of cannabis on Saturday the second of August
in Lagos, ndl EA offices acting on intelligence on Saturday
the second of August arrested Joseph Michael with three point
three kilograms of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis in

(04:20):
Mushen while Ibrahem Suliman was nabbed in a wire area
of Yama with sixteen point five litres of scuchies. On Friday,
the first of August, no fewer than one hundred thousand
pills of tramadol capsules were seized from a suspect, Hussain
Yusuf thirty seven at an ndl E checkpoint along van
Dai Kio Agoja Road in Bernu State on Friday, the

(04:41):
first of August one. Operatives in Edo State same day
raided a warehouse in Ipoma where a suspect, William A.
Labe forty four was arrested in two hundred and thirty
three point five kilograms skunk recovered. In Borno state, ndl
EA operatives of the Arrival Hall of the Mohammadu Buhari
International Airport MVIIAM made a guri on Friday, the first

(05:06):
of August intercepted a consignment of one hundred and sixty
pills of tramadol concealed in footwears by a thirty eight
year old passenger, Umar Aminu, who was promptly arrested. While
ndl EA operatives in Ogan State on Friday the first
of August raided the Oyo Hodin area and arrested a
female suspect, Yohaya amanat Say with seven thou two hundred

(05:30):
and eighteen pills of opioids, mainly tramadol. Their counterparts in
Oyo State now Noladeji Saka fifty four with seventy seven
point five kilograms of skunker desani ke A Barden, just
as another suspect, Bensonizza forty, was arrested in Abraca Delta
State with twelve point five kilograms skunk, one kilogram tramadol

(05:52):
and fourteen point four liters of codeine. In Bielsa State
NDLA offices on Friday, the first of August arrested fifty
two year old chief of Mecha Opara and Anuoha Chadinma
twenty five along Tanta Road and Asoma where a total
of forty one thousand, seven hundred and five tramadol capsules

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among other assorted opioids were recovered from their shop and residence,
while a suspect Bshir Gambo thirty was nabbed at Yayasatown
Tudenwada Local Government Area, Carno State with sixty one kilograms skunk.
Two suspects Kabiru Yinde forty and Rocky Vada Kombi twenty

(06:33):
five were on Monday the twenty eighth of July arrested
at Alago area of Emo Town, Osun State, where ninety
kilograms skunk thirty six point three grams of methamphetamine a
Toyota bus marked s m K seven hundred and fifty
five yf and two hundred and twenty eight thousand, two
hundred naira's cash exhibit were recovered from them. In like manner,

(06:56):
commands and formations of the agency across the country continued
their war against drug abuse WADA sensitization activities to schools,
worship centers, workplaces and communities among others. In the past week.
These include WADA Enlightenment lecture to students and staff of
Seroma Ibrahemi Islamir School, fetiscom Yobe, Sultan Makido Institute for

(07:20):
Koran and General Studies, Wammako Sokto Metro drivers of Borno
Express Transport Services, Maidaguri, Borno State and worshippers at Seventh
Day Adventist Church Abakponike, Enugu State. While the Osuan State
Command of ndl EA paid a Wader advocacy visit to
Aluo of Ewo Land. His Imperial Majesty Ober Abduashid Adewale Acanbi,

(07:47):
while commending the offices and men of the MMIA, MBIAM, FCT,
legos Edo Oyo, Delta Bielsa, Bernu Karno and OSUN Commands
for the arrests Sieges and the Dexterity. Chairman, Chief Executive
Officer of ndl EA, Brigadier General Mohammad Baba Mahwa retired

(08:10):
and joined them and their colleagues across the country to
continue with the ongoing balance to approach to the drug
control efforts of the agency. Fermi Babafemi, Director Media and
Advocacy ndl EA, stated on Sunday, the third of August
twenty twenty five, led Bugi Ni in the mortgagical me