By Leshi Adebayo
For the second time in a row, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a nursing mother, Mariam Adetilewa Dirisu for drug trafficking.
This was disclosed by the Agency’s spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday.
Dirisu was caught by the operatives with skunk weighing 5kg and Molly weighing 1.8g.
Babafemi said Dirisu claims to be a part-time 400-level student of International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of Benin.
He recalled that she was first arrested on October 21, by the Edo State Command for allegedly smuggling cannabis in a local staple called Fufu.
On that day, the NDLEA chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (Retd), directed that the 35-year-old mother, be counselled and released immediately because of her 2-month-old baby.
Babafemi said, “Curiously, a controlled delivery operation carried out by operatives of the Delta State Command of the Agency on Saturday 30th October again led to the arrest of Mariam who had ordered for the drugs from Lagos even while still on bail for an earlier offence.”
In a related development, the NDLEA spokesperson said that 2 suspected fake security agents, Umar Ibrahim and Sadiq Abubakar, as well as their accomplice, Auwal Hassan, were apprehended in Kogi State while conveying 105.4kg of cannabis.
The statement revealed that they were transporting the illicit drug from Ondo State to Kaduna on Saturday 30th October in a Mercedes Benz C 180 car with registration number Abuja BWR 924 KH.
It read in part, “Desperate efforts by drug cartels to export different quantities of Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine and Cannabis to London, United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos have been scuttled by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.
“Narcotic officers of the Agency had on Thursday 28th October during outward routine clearance of cargo at NAHCO export shed of the airport intercepted 20 parcels of Cocaine weighing 1.2kg concealed in packets of Zee black soap; 23 parcels of Heroin weighing 1.4kg hidden in packets of Zee black soap and 39 parcels of 2.35kg Methamphetamine concealed in Dudu-Osun black soap packets.”
