NDLEA Nabs 28-Year-Old Woman Who Manufactures Cakes Laced With Drugs

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NDLEA Nabs 28-Year-Old Woman Who Manufactures Cakes Laced With Drugs

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has detained Jennifer Iliya, a 28-year-old woman, in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, for manufacturing and disseminating cakes infused with illicit drugs, particularly cannabis sativa.

The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy,, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

Babafemi said during her arrest on Wednesday, “a substantial number of drugged cakes weighing 1.5kg were recovered from her possession.”

He added that a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu, and a dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo, 30, were also arrested in Yenagoa on Sunday, March 10, for a similar offence.

The statement added that Oturah, who is a frequent flyer, confessed to being hired as a courier for €700 upon successful delivery of the consignment in Italy.

Giving an update on another arrest, the statement further read, “Two suspects, Joseph Dadik, 47, and Bensha Yari, 32, were arrested with 24,180 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 135.5 kilograms at Sabon Tasha, Kaduna, while Adamu Umar, 18, was nabbed with 20.700kg cannabis when his house in Shuware area of Mubi, Adamawa state was raided on Friday 26th April.

“No less than 310.7kg cannabis was recovered on Thursday 25th April when NDLEA operatives raided parts of Mushin in Lagos state. While 300kg was seized at Olatunji Street, Mushin, 10.7kg of same substance was retrieved from two suspects: Tijani Wasiu and Suleiman Aisha at Anifowose, Mushin.”

Additionally, one Stanley Chukwudi, 43, was arrested with 5,900 ampoules of pentazocine injection in the Sabon Gari area of Kano State, while a couple, Fredrick Odion, 53, and Gladys Odion, 52, were apprehended with 50kg of cannabis in Esan West LGA of Edo State.

The PUNCH reported earlier in April that NDLEA operatives, in conjunction with the Department of State Security, detained a 35-year-old lady, Chidinma Chinenye-Agbazue, after she was caught attempting to export 20 parcels of cannabis sativa weighing 10.70 kilogrammes concealed in African salad, popularly called Abacha, and dried vegetables, to Doha, Qatar, through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State.