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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman.
The 28-year-old suspect came top on the list of 12 other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.
Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday 3rd January by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her ladys handbag.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday said she was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina state when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
Meanwhile, the agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on New Year day, Monday 1st January 2024 intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.
Babafemi noted that a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday 6th January following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos state.
He added that the consignment had arrived the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on an Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.
Babafemi said Saheed delivers such consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. The latest shipment has a total weight of 1.80 kilograms.