The grandmother, Ibinosun Sandra Esther, was detained in Ibadan, Oyo state as part of a follow-up operation after 5.5 kilogramme of South African-imported Loud cannabis was found. The package, which she said was brought to her by her daughter, was hidden behind two enormous speakers and came as part of a combined shipment on an Airpeace flight to the NAHCO import shed at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos.
Another attempt by a freight agent, Adebisi Aina Hafsat, to export 3,000 tramadol tablets disguised as motor spare parts to Banjul, Gambia through the NAHCO export shed was also thwarted by agents who seized the consignment and arrested her on Monday, November 28. The next day, Tuesday, November 29, a follow-up operation to the Ebute-Meta area of Lagos resulted in the arrest of the actual owner, Af Following this, at the SAHCO import shed, 100,000 Royal brand Tramadol 200mg tablets with a gross weight of 68.90 kilogrammes were found to have been imported from Karachi, Pakistan aboard Ethiopian Airlines.
In Rivers state, agents detained Kate Ibinabo, 29, who was pregnant and in possession of 34.4 kg of cannabis sativa on Saturday, December 3.
Although she was in her ninth month of pregnancy at the time of her arrest, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, has ordered that she be given administrative release till she gives birth and returns for her prosecution. On Tuesday, November 29, Ondo state police recovered 241 bags of the psychoactive narcotic totaling 3,133 kg from a structure at Ilale Cashew, Ehinogbe, Owo. On Thursday, December 1st, a raid at the hideout of a running drug dealer in Lagos' Mushin neighbourhood netted at least 507,9 kg of cannabis.
53 jumbo bags of C/S weighing 567.05kg were taken from three suspects in Cross River on December 1st at Mpara junction, Odukpani LGA while they were transporting the consignment in a bus with the registration number CKK 74 AA. The suspects were Bassey Boniface Eyibio, 38; Effiong Akiba Etim, 30; and Ngbong Raymond, 45. Operatives also detained Ali Mohammed, another suspect, on the Potiskum-Damaturu route after discovering 29,090 tramadol tablets in his Honda automobile, ABC 914 RW, which was travelling from Gombe to Damaturu in Yobe state.
Gen. Marwa praised the officers and personnel of the MMIA, Rivers, Ondo, Lagos, Cross River, and Yobe Commands of the Agency and issued a charge to them and their counterparts in other formations to continue stepping up their offensives against drug cartels while also praising the arrests and seizures.