Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a hotel in Abuja where drugs are sold and young ladies camped for commercial sex.
The Agency, in a statement on Sunday, said, three ladies and a man were arrested when the drug joint, JAT Suites, located at 30 Lobito Crescent, Wuse 2 was raided and some quantity of Rohypnol and paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine were recovered on Wednesday 22nd September, 2021.
Investigations revealed that the hotel is operated without requisite approvals in a high-profile neighborhood and patronised by call girls while the bar serves as the spot to smoke and sell drugs to the young girls and their customers.
The Director, Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said in the statement that the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Agency,, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has directed the FCT Command and the Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations of the Agency to do all within the law to ensure the property is forfeited to the federal government to serve as deterrence to others who allow their premises to be used for drug dealing.
In the same vein, one Ms. Ozigbo Joy Nneka has been arrested at NAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos while trying to export packs of codeine tablets weighing 15.15kg to the United Kingdom last Wednesday.
A day earlier, 21st September, narcotic officers at the airport also arrested one Nwajindo Ndubuisi Emmanuel during inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E-arrival hall. Some bottles of codeine weighing 5.65kg were recovered from him.
Also at the airport, a total of 150.30kg of khat was seized on 20th September after six weeks of placing the consignment, which arrived at SAHCO shed on August 2, via Kenyan Airways cargo flight, on surveillance.
In a related development, two female part one students of Edo State Polytechnic, Uzen, Babalola Modupe Angel (19) and Esekhagbe Sonia (20) were arrested on 23rd September, with 21 wraps of skunk, while another lady, Chioma Okocha, 25, was arrested the following day when she tried to deliver 200grams of Crack Cocaine to a customer at an eatery in Benin.
Earlier the same day, men of the Irrua Area Command of the Agency working on actionable intelligence evacuated 10 bags of cannabis Sativa weighing 135kg in Amahor bush in Igueben area. The exhibits were stored ready for transportation to other parts of the country.
In the same vein, men of the Okada Area Command in the early hours of Sunday, evacuated 2,937 kilograms of cannabis Sativa from Utese forest in Ovia North-East local government area of Edo state, while in Kaduna state, Mrs. Fatima Musa, a widow and notorious drug dealer was arrested on 18th September at Afana village in Zango Kataf LGA while moving 12kg of cannabis to Jos.
She had earlier been convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment on 7th July 2020 following her arrest on 3rd March 2020 with 45kg of cannabis sativa.
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