NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who made the revelation in a statement, also revealed another suspect caught with 1000 cartridges
By Kehinde Okeowo
Officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two persons conveying 18 pieces of pump action rifles and 1,300 cartridges in Kogi State using a J-5 bus.
The operative made the arrest while on patrol along the Okene-Abuja highway, on Saturday, September 17.
According to the anti-narcotics agency, the vehicle was coming from Onitsha in Anambra State and heading to Kaduna-Zaria in Kaduna State.
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NDLEA identified the two suspects conveying the arms and ammunition, as 51-one-year-old Chukwudi Aronu, and 23-year-old Shuaibu Gambo.
This NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, who made the revelation in a statement obtained by TheNiche on Sunday, also revealed the arrest of another suspect caught with cartridges.
He said, “Another suspect, Anthony Agada, 37, conveying 1,000 cartridges, was equally nabbed in a bus coming from Onitsha to Abuja same day.”
Meanwhile, in another operation by NDLEA operatives, 1,404 bottles of codeine syrup and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized from a vehicle coming from Onitsha enroute Sokoto, with the receiver, Stanley Raymond, 39, and the sender, Shadrack Ifediora, 46, arrested in follow-up operations in Sokoto and Anambra respectively.
