Dispatch Rider, Hair Stylist Nabbed For Selling Drug-Laced Chin-Chin To Students, Parties

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Josephine Odunu, a 20-year-old hair stylist, and Edesemi Ikporo, a 30-year-old dispatch rider, for selling and distributing illegal drug-laced chin-chin to schoolchildren and at social gatherings in Yenagoa, Bayelsa state.

According to a press statement issued by the anti-narcotics agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA officers on patrol in the Opolo area of Yenagoa intercepted the motorcycle dispatch rider, Edesemi, on Sunday, March 10, 2024, and recovered 200 grammes of chin-chin produced with cannabis sativa, which he was on his way to deliver to a buyer.

He stated that a swift follow-up operation led to the arrest of the hairdresser, Josephine, who distributes the drugged chin-chin from the salon where she works in the Kpansia area of Yenagoa. The search of the salon led to the recovery of 3 kilogrammes, bringing the total weight of the illicit substance seized from the duo to 3.2 kilogrammes.

He noted that investigations revealed that they distributed the chin-chin often laced with cannabis and tramadol to students and at birthday parties., with Edesemi handling the delivery to buyers, Josephine is a major distributor to a wanted suspect who produced the drugged chin-chin.

In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Adamawa state last Wednesday arrested two wanted suspects: Ajim Samuel (aka Boss), 30, and Davidson Joshua (aka Dantala), 36, while on their way from Onitsha, Anambra state where they had gone to buy a consignment of tramadol containing 14,428 pills of the opioid which they tucked in the body compartments of their black Honda Civic car marked YLA 623 SL. They were nabbed along Numan-Jalingo road, recovered from them were 21 grammes of cannabis and monetary exhibits totaling N19,280.

In Osun state, 49-year-old commercial bus driver Ogunleye Adegoke was arrested on the Gbongan-Ibadan road after NDLEA agents discovered 2,000 tramadol capsules, 60 rohypnol tablets and ten bottles of codeine syrup hidden in his vehicle’s spare tyre compartment. In Osun state, commercial bus driver Ogunleye Adegoke, 49, was arrested on the Gbongan-Ibadan road after NDLEA agents discovered 2,000 tramadol capsules, 60 rohypnol tablets, and 10 bottles of codeine syrup hidden in his vehicle’s spare tyre compartment.

He stated that NDLEA operatives seized at least 24 kilogrammes of cannabis from the driver of a transport company, Ikechukwu Obialo, at Sagamu Interchange in Ogun state last Wednesday, while in Kano, two suspects, Ali Amadu, 27, and Adamu Hassan, 33, were apprehended with a total of 125.3 kilogrammes of cannabis, 3,400 tramadol pills, and 30 bottles of codeine syrup. They were arrested last Monday at Gadar Tamburawa area, and last Friday at Tsamiya Babba, Hotoro respectively.

He revealed that 118 kilogrammes of cannabis were recovered from a warehouse in Nasarawa state’s Masaka area last Saturday, while NDLEA operatives in Edo state arrested a suspect, Kole Samuel, 50, with 75 kilogrammes of the same psychoactive substance last Thursday in the market area of Otuo, Owan East LGA. Same day, operatives raided the Oloma-Okpe forest in Akoko Edo LGA where they destroyed 3,944.2075 kilogrammes of cannabis on 1.577683 hectares of farmland.

Babafemi stated that the agency’s various commands across the country have continued the War Against Drug Abuse, or WADA, advocacy campaign with the same vigour over the last week.

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