NDLEA rearrests nursing mother for drug dealing 3 weeks after bail on same offence
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 38-year-old nursing mother for drug dealing three weeks after she was granted bail for same offence in Kwara state.
Director, Media & Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday February 20, said the suspect, Mrs. Rashidat Adebayo, was granted administrative bail following her arrest for dealing in illicit drugs.
“Operatives have again arrested her in Offa with assorted drugs such as Tramadol, Swinol, Diazepam and Pentazocine injection ampules,” the statement read.
“Before her latest arrest on Thursday 17th February, the nursing mother had been arrested and granted bail on 24th January 2022 for dealing in similar drugs,”
In the same vein, NDLEA officers have arrested two drug dealers: Sani Isa (aka Bilaz) and Bala Yerima in Hong, Adamawa state with 239 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 209kg, just as operatives of the Bauchi state Command have intercepted a truck marked FFF 422 XB coming from Lagos to Maiduguri, at Azare, Bauchi.
A total of 164.8kg of cannabis sativa concealed in peak milk cartons was recovered from the truck.
