NDLEA seizes 82kg Indian hemp ‘concealed inside cassava flour’ in Delta
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 96 compressed blocks of Indian hemp weighing 82kg at Basket Market in Asaba, Delta state capital.
Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said on Sunday that the drug was concealed inside jumbo bags of cassava flour.
Babafemi said 164,750 pills of tramadol and other illicit pills were also seized from two suspects – Henry Abuchi and Daniel Ugwoke — in Taraba state.
He said the agency’s operatives also recovered 45 blocks of compressed Indian hemp weighing 23kg on the Okene-Abuja highway in Kogi, on March 21 from one Abubakar Muhammad.
The NDLEA spokesperson said the suspect was travelling in a bus that left Lagos for Maiduguri when he was arrested.
He added that one Kudirat Bello, a female drug dealer, was arrested at Igbesa in Ogun state, on March 20, with different quantities of methamphetamine, Indian hemp, rophynol and N119, 600 monetary exhibits.
“In Lagos, more than 1,000kg of Indian hemp were recovered from three suspects – Bolaji Adesina, Femi Ojo, and Jamiu Useni during a raid at Mushin,” Babafemi added.
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