The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a female drug dealer, Peace Ayuba, with 78 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 849.5kgs at Kakau Gonin Gora area of Kaduna State.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure via a statement issued on Sunday.
Babafemi noted that the female drug dealer was arrested on Friday, adding that the NDLEA operatives also arrested a 28-year-old man with 443 bottles of codeine-based syrup in Sokoto State.
He stated that the NDLEA also secured the conviction of a notorious drug dealer in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo, Lagos State, Surajo Mohammed, ten months after his arrest by the anti-drug agency.
The NDLEA spokesman said Mohammed was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Yellin Dogoro on Thursday.
Babafemi disclosed that Mohammed was arrested with 941.15kgs cannabis on December 20, 2021, and arraigned in court in charge number FHC/L/370c/2021.
He said Mohammed was however given a fine option of N7 million.
Speaking on the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), urged the operatives of the anti-drug agency and their compatriots across the country to remain steadfast, resolute, and unrelenting until the last gram of illicit drugs is taken away from Nigeria.
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