Salihu Ali, Abuja
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested a notorious drug dealer, Godwin Emuneyin 45, who is physically challenged and uses his wheelchair as cover to deal in illicit substances such as methamphetamine and cannabis in Afuze, headquarters of Owan East local government area of Edo state.
The agency’s spokesperson Mr Femi BabaFemi said the suspect was arrested on Tuesday 7th November at his base in Afuze following credible intelligence.
“As at the time of his arrest, a wooden box used to conceal illicit substances including 18 pinches of methamphetamine, one block and 71 wraps of cannabis, was recovered from him.”
In another operation in Edo state, the NDLEA operatives on Monday 6th November recovered 42 bags of cannabis weighing 480kgs from a camp in Aviosi forest in Owan West LGA, while the Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA was also raided same day with 231.5kgs of the substance recovered and a cannabis farm measuring 0.778960 hectare destroyed.
BabaFemi explained that the Agency also recovers tons of psychoactive in Ogun, Osun, Adamawa, Delta and the Federal Capital Territory FCT.
The Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa applauded the officers and their counterparts across the country for the seizures and for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures thus creating parity between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities.
