A reputed drug lord who was suspected of organizing a mob attack against two NDLEA agents in Hong, Adamawa State on October 6, 2020, has been apprehended by NDLEA agents.
On June 26, this year’s United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, which was marked globally, the Adamawa State commander of the NDLEA, Femi Agboalu, revealed this.
He said, “That attack, orchestrated by Abdullahi Musa, aka Yerima Uding, led to the ambush and burning to death of an NDLEA operative and another officer, who was brutally beaten to stupor and had since been bedridden, leading to his permanent incapacitation. The arrest of the kingpin followed an operation led by an assistant commander in charge of narcotics and O/C Strike Force on the same day the baron was on his way for hajj.
“He was found with 57 compressed blocks of cannabis Sativa concealed in the booth of his ash Toyota Corolla car on June 16, 2022. He was about to travel to hajj in his own car; the licence carrying his name was seized, which is going to be forfeited, and he will go for prosecution.”
Agboalu also commended the assistant commander for his part in the capture of a second drug lord who specialized in transporting Indian hemp in a motorized concrete mixer truck.
The NDLEA commander claims that the baron was apprehended in Ondo State after being stopped on December 2, 2021, in the Girei Local Government Area of Adamawa State, carrying 2,197 blocks of cannabis sativa concealed in a motorized concrete mixer.
He stated, “The command, within a year between June 2021 and May 2022, in pursuing the drug reduction strategy of the command, arrested over 296 drug offenders comprising 286 male and 11 female suspects with various seizures of drugs as follows: cannabis Sativa 2,702.167Kg; Tramadol 146.806Kg; Diazepam 36.116Kg; Exol, 5 29.676Kg; Pentazocine, 124.578Kg; Rohypnol, 1.473Kg and codeine-based syrup, 61.440Kg.
“Others are 0.013Kg of cocaine seized from two females; 0.227Kg methamphetamine commonly called Mkpuru Mmiri seized from a traveller entering the state from the East; 2.290Kg of Phenobarbitone and 28 rounds of live ammunition.”
The commandant also added that as part of the inter-agency collaboration and synergy, the NDLEA had given the police the rounds of ammunition, the locally produced pistol, a pair of military camouflage underwear confiscated from one of the narcotics suspects, and the suspect himself.
