NDLEA arrests 75-year-old man for drug trafficking

A 75-year-old man, Uchelue Ikechukwu, has been arrested with illicit substances during a raid by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Anambra State.

The 75-year-old man was nabbed at Umudioka in Dunukofia Local Government Area of Anambra State with 26.7kg skunk on Thursday, August 28, 2025.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, August 31.

Babafemi added that a 30-year-old man, Alfa Andrew, was also apprehended following the destruction of 178,750 kilograms of skunk on his 71.5 hectares of cannabis farm in Mayodoga forest, Sardauna local government area of Taraba State.

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Babafemi disclosed that Andrew was arrested with a Dane gun on Tuesday, August 26, when NDLEA operatives supported by personnel of the Nigerian Army, Nigeria Forest Security Service, Mambila Youth Vanguard and Vigilante, stormed his 71.5 hectares of cannabis farm, where they destroyed 178, 750 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis.

He noted that 104,900 capsules of tramadol concealed in the driver compartment of a fuel tanker, suspected to be an illicit consignment going to insurgents in parts of Borno State, were intercepted by NDLEA operatives at the Abuja/Kaduna tollgate in Kaduna on Friday, August 29, while a suspect Hassan Buba was immediately taken into custody.

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