Why NDLEA Apprehended Hair Stylist In South-south

Amidst the challenges Nigeria is facing as a nation, drug abuse is still on the rise even amongst the youths.

While the drug law agencies push to clean the system of illicit drugs, some persons dig up different ways of indulging. 

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 20-year-old hair stylist, Josephine Odunu and a 30-year-old dispatch rider, Edesemi Ikporo.

This was because they were selling and distributing chin-chin laced with illicit drug to school students and at social parties in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State.

A press statement by the spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, said NDLEA officers on patrol around Opolo area of Yenagoa, on Sunday, March 10, 2024, intercepted the motorcycle dispatch rider, Edesemi.

They recovered 200 grammes of chin-chin produced with cannabis sativa, which he was on a mission to deliver to a buyer.

NDLEA Arrests Hairstylist

He said a swift follow up operation led to the arrest of the hairdresser, Josephine.

According to the NDLEA, Josephine distributes the drugged chin-chin from the salon where she works in Kpansia area of Yenagoa.

Furthermore, a search of the salon led to the recovery of 3 kilogrammes of illicit substance, bringing the total weight of the seized package from the duo to 3.2 kilogrammes.

He noted that investigations revealed that they distributed the chin-chin often laced with cannabis and tramadol to students and at birthday parties.

Edesemi is in charge of handling the delivery to buyers, while Josephine is a major distributor to a wanted suspect who produces the drugged chin-chin.

Consignment Of Tramadol

Also, NDLEA operatives in Adamawa state last Wednesday arrested two wanted suspects, Ajim Samuel (aka Boss), 30, and Davidson Joshua (aka Dantala), 36, while on their way from Onitsha, Anambra state.

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They had gone to buy a consignment of tramadol containing 14,428 pills of the opioid which they tucked in the body compartments of their black Honda Civic car marked YLA 623 SL.

However, they were nabbed along Numan-Jalingo road.

Recovered from them were 21 grammes of cannabis and monetary exhibits totaling ₦19,280.

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