A 45-year-old ex-convict Femi Owoeye better known as ‘Do Good’, was on Thursday 25th September arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at his 24 Oke-Igele street, Ikere Ekiti home in State.
A statement by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said on Sunday in a statement that the suspect was found in possession of 32kg skunk and 10.5grams of tramadol.
He also said Owoeye, had been convicted and sentenced to three years imprisonment for a similar drug trafficking offence in 2016.
In Kaduna, a suspect Adedamola Olayeni, 56, was on Monday 22nd September arrested with 404 blocks of skunk weighing 262.6kg at the Abuja – Kaduna tollgate.
The consignment was found in his Honda Pilot jeep marked MKA 499 TT, coming from Osogbo, Osun state and heading to Katsina State.
The NDLEA also said another suspect, Zubairu Haruna, 30, was on Wednesday 24th September found with 506grams of methamphetamine at the Gwantu – Fadan Karshi check point, Kaduna State.
A follow up operation in Gombe State led to the arrest of the actual receiver of the consignment Babangida Mohammed, 25, according to NDLEA.
In addition, about 85,100 pills of tramadol and other opioids were seized from the trio of Dauda Abubakar; Abdullahi Umar and Ismaila Muhammed at Apapa area of Lagos on Monday 22nd September, 2025.
Elsewhere in Abuja during the following day Tuesday 23rd September, NDLEA operatives, arrested Opeyemi Ogundipe, 40, with 2.1kg Colorado on Abaji- Gwagwalada expressway.
In Edo state, NDLEA officers on Tuesday 23rd September destroyed a total of 12,115.6kg skunk on 4.846244 hectares of cannabis plantation at Uromi forest in Esan West LGA. Two suspects: Ernest Uche, 44, and Felix Mugorga, 31, were arrested and 345.5kg processed substance was evacuated by NDLEA operatives.
At Ogu forest, Igueben LGA, no less than 12,031.245kg of same psychoactive substance was destroyed on 4.438442 hectares of cannabis farm on Wednesday 24th September with 106.1kg processed consignment evacuated.
A truck conveying 82 bags of skunk concealed in bags of charcoal with a total weight of 1,025kg was intercepted by NDLEA operatives on Wareke-Auchi road, Etsako West LGA on Friday 26th September.
Two suspects: Kabiru Abdulahi, 35; and Anas Safiyanu, 20, were apprehended in connection with the seizure, according to the anti-narcotic Agency, which also confirmed the arrest of two drug kingpins with consignments of cocaine, heroin, meth in Lagos State.
In a similar vein, NDLEA intercepted three bandits’ suppliers with Colorado, Opioid supplies in Borno, Yobe and destroyed 24,146kg skunk in Edo forests during the last week.
