Suspected drug supplier arrested in Niger
A suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in some parts of Niger State, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani, alias Gamboli, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at his hideout. The agency said he had three weeks ago escaped arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro LGA, […]
The suspected drug supplier, Gamboli, arrested in Niger.
A suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in some parts of Niger State, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani, alias Gamboli, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at his hideout.
The agency said he had three weeks ago escaped arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro LGA, the area he was allegedly operating.
In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokesperson, said following credible intelligence about the illicit drug activities of Gamboli, NDLEA operatives on November 20, raided his house at Anguwan Makera where they recovered 471.8kg of skunk; a strain of cannabis.
According to the statement, though he escaped arrest during the raid and had since been in hiding, the manhunt for him eventually paid off last Thursday when NDLEA officers, acting on processed intelligence, traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta.
BabaFemi said intelligence reports had indicated that Gamboli was a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro LGA.
Meanwhile, NDLEA officers in Abia, on Thursday, December 11, raided a codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma LGA and recovered 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.