The Digest:
NDLEA operatives have arrested a 45-year-old pastor of the Celestial Church of Christ, Afolabi Hodonu, and his wife, Success, for allegedly concealing 11kg of skunk in hidden compartments of their vehicle at the Seme border. The agency also dismantled a cocaine trafficking syndicate exporting to the UK, recovering 3.10kg of cocaine hidden in palm kernel extract tins. In Borno, a woman supplying drugs to bandit groups was arrested. Multiple seizures were recorded across Adamawa, Osun, Ondo, Benue, Edo, and Oyo states.
Key Points:
- A religious leader allegedly involved in drug trafficking undermines public trust.
- The syndicate leader used palm kernel extract tins to smuggle cocaine to the UK.
- A mother allegedly used her 11-year-old daughter to deliver drugs in Ibadan.
- Drug supply networks are now linking bandits in north-east Nigeria to Chad.
- NDLEA's nationwide operations show the scale of drug trafficking in Nigeria.
Watch for further arrests as NDLEA tracks down other members of the trafficking syndicates.
Sources: The Cable, Punch
