The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a female drug dealer, Peace Ayuba, with 78 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 849.5kgs at Kakau Gonin Gora area of Kaduna State.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure via a statement issued on Sunday.
Babafemi noted that the female drug dealer was arrested on Friday, adding that the NDLEA operatives also arrested a 28-year-old man with 443 bottles of codeine-based syrup in Sokoto State.
He stated that the NDLEA also secured the conviction of a notorious drug dealer in the Alaba Rago area of Ojo, Lagos State, Surajo Mohammed, ten months after his arrest by the anti-drug agency.
The NDLEA spokesman said Mohammed was sentenced to seven years imprisonment by a Federal High Court in Lagos presided over by Justice Yellin Dogoro on Thursday.
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Babafemi disclosed that Mohammed was arrested with 941.15kgs cannabis on December 20, 2021, and arraigned in court in charge number FHC/L/370c/2021.
He said Mohammed was however given a fine option of N7 million.
Speaking on the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), urged the operatives of the anti-drug agency and their compatriots across the country to remain steadfast, resolute, and unrelenting until the last gram of illicit drugs is taken away from Nigeria.
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