Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a hotel in Abuja where drugs are sold and young ladies camped for commercial sex.
At least, four persons, three ladies and a man, were arrested when the drug joint, JAT Suites, located at 30 Lobito Crescent, Wuse 2 was raided and some quantity of Rohynol and paraphernalia for smoking crack cocaine were recovered on Wednesday 22nd September 2021.
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NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that investigations show the hotel is operated without requisite approvals in a high-profile neighbourhood and patronised by ‘call girls’ while the bar serves as the spot to smoke and sell drugs to young girls and their customers.
He also said that the Chairman/Chief Executive, NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) directed the FCT Command and the Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigations of the agency to follow lawful process to ensure the property is forfeited to the federal government to serve as deterrence to others who allow their premises to be used for drug dealing.
Also, one Ms. Ozigbo Joy Nneka was arrested at NAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Lagos while trying to export packs of codeine tablets weighing 15.15kg to the United Kingdom last Wednesday.
A day earlier, Tuesday 21 September, narcotic officers at the airport also arrested one Nwajindo Ndubuisi Emmanuel during inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E-arrival hall; some bottles of codeine weighing 5.65kg were recovered from him.
At the same airport, 150.30kg of khat was seized on Monday 20 September after six weeks of placing the consignment, which arrived SAHCO shed on August 2, via Kenyan Airways cargo flight, on surveillance.
Meanwhile, two female part one students of Edo State Polytechnic, Uzen; Babalola Modupe Angel (19) and Esekhagbe Sonia (20) were arrested on Thursday 23 September, with 21 wraps of skunk, while another lady, Chioma Okocha (25), was arrested the following day Friday 24 September while delivering 200grams of Crack Cocaine to a customer at an eatery in Benin.
Earlier same day, men of the Irrua Area Command of the agency working on actionable intelligence evacuated 10 bags of cannabis sativa weighing 135kg in Amahor bush in Igueben area.
The exhibits were stored ready for transportation to other parts of the country.
In the same vein, men of the Okada Area Command in the early hours of Sunday 26 September evacuated 2,937kgs of cannabis sativa from Utese forest in Ovia North East local government area of Edo state.
In Kaduna State, Mrs. Fatima Musa, a widow and notorious drug dealer was arrested on Saturday 18 September at Afana village in Zango Kataf LGA while moving 12kg of cannabis to Jos.
She had earlier been convicted and sentenced to six months imprisonment on 7th July 2020 following her arrest on 3rd March 2020 with 45kg of cannabis sativa.
