Operatives of the Edo and Kwara State Commands of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a medical doctor, Jane Ofoma, and two ex-soldiers – Emmanuel Ehiramhen and Ibrahim Musa – for drug trafficking.
Ofoma was nabbed for operating an online catering service through which drugged cookies and biscuits are sold to members of the public.
Ofoma, 26, who is Medicine graduate of the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and recently completed her internship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
NDLEA said she was using her Omachi’s Kitchen to sell drugged cookies and biscuits.
Femi babafemi, director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, said in a statement that following intelligence and surveillance, narcotic officers of the Edo State Command on Saturday, June 19, 2021, stormed her operational base at No. 1 Winners Way, Auchi, where she was arrested.
He revealed that about 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis sativa were recovered. “She has confessed to baking the cookies with skunk in her statement, while under interrogation,” Babafemi said.
Emmanuel Ehiramhen, a 30-year-old man of No. 10 Egan Street, Ekpoma, was arrested by officers of the command for dealing in crack cocaine.
Also, operatives from the Kwara State Command of the agency apprehended Ibrahim Musa, a 52-year-old ex-soldier, with 12.167 kilograms of Arizona (cannabis sativa), four grams of cocaine and 25 grams of flunitrazepam.
Babafemi said Musa was apprehended on Thursday, June 17, 2021 at Oke-Odo, Tanke area of Ilorin metropolis, when he arrived from Lagos to supply his customers in the state.
Musa, a sergeant, who worked in the maintenance department at the Abati Army Barracks, Lagos, from where he was deployed to the 117 Battalion in Chibok, Borno State, before he deserted the Army, had arrived Ilorin in company with his wife, Basirat, in his Honda Accord car with number plate Lagos JJ 707 BL with the seized exhibits.
Babafemi stated: “He was arrested at the point of delivery by operatives of the Kwara State Command of the agency. Under interrogation, Ibrahim revealed that while at Chibok, he got connected to a supplier of Arizona and other drugs in Lagos, whom he contacted when he deserted the Army in October 2020.
“He said he decided to go into the illicit drug business to enable him fend for his two wives and three children. The suspect revealed that the latest journey was his second trip to Ilorin to deliver drugs and decided to travel with one of his wives, who was not aware of his mission.”
Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd.), chairman/chief executive of NDLEA, has commended the Edo and Kwara State Commands of the agency for their vigilance and commitment to the goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of illicit drugs trafficking and abuse.
He charged the commanders, officers and men of the commands and their counterparts across the country not to relent in the discharge of their responsibilities, and assured them that he would continue to make their welfare a priority.