A serving officer of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has been arrested for his involvement in the selling of assorted illicit drugs to students of a federal university and cultists in Ogun state.
Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement made available to News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that the drug dealer who served in the Lagos state Command of the security agency was arrested on Wednesday, June 15.
This, he said, was after days of surveillance on his wife’s shop used as his sales point in Camp area of Abeokuta.
According to Babafemi, one of his salesmen, a motorcycle rider was trailed to the location at about 8pm and arrested with six pinches of Colorado weighing 1.17grams.
“This was before the principal suspect, who has been on the Agency’s watch list, was nabbed with different illicit drugs.”
He gave the breakdown of the substances as: codeine -17 bottles; Cannabis -22.26 grams; tramadol 230 tablets -98grams; 61 tablets of flunitrazepam -23.72grams; 113 tablets of molly -48.16grams and sex drops -43.92grams.
“After the arrest of the two suspects, some student union officials of the institution blocked the NDLEA team with their official vehicle.
“The narcotic agents, however, restrained themselves and after hours of standoff succeeded in moving the suspects to custody,” he said.
Babafemi, however warned that the NDLEA would not spare any law enforcement agent hiding under the privilege of his uniform to engage in narcotic criminal business.
