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How NDLEA Nabbed Student Selling Drugs Concealed In Textbooks | READ DETAILS

Faith Ukanwa

May 03, 2021

Operatives of the Niger State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency(NDLEA), have arrested a student selling drugs concealed in textbooks on campus.

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The suspect, Abel Godwin Idio, 24-year-old 400-level student of the Federal University of Technology, Minna(FUTMINNA), was arrested for selling two strong variants of cannabis, Arizona and Loud, concealed in textbooks.

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According to Haruna Kwetishe, the State Commander of the agency, "Abel uses the inner pages of his textbooks to conceal the drugs within the campus to sell.ÔÇØ

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Kwetishe added that the suspect was arrested on Friday, April 30, 2021, in Gidan Kwano, within the varsity vicinity.

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He also disclosed that two other traffickers, Yahaya Joshua and Yahaya Audu, were arrested the previous day along Mokwa-Jebba Road with 32 kilograms of Cannabis Sativa.

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In his reaction, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), commended the Commands of the agency for disrupting the activities of drug cartels in their respective states.

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He urged them to remain relentless in pursuit of the agency's mandate to rid Nigeria of illicit drugs.

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— Faith Ukanwa

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