NDLEA arrests Ogun poly student, others with illicit drugs

National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Operatives have arrested a 22-year-old Higher National Diploma (HND) 1 female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun State, Susan Isoyo.

The anti-drug agency’s officials nabbed Isoyo, for possessing codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of cannabis and dealing in illicit drugs in the state.

Disclosing the arrest, NDLEA Spokesperson, Femi Babafemi said Isoyo was arrested opposite the institution’s second gate.

The statement in which the student’s arrest was disclosed, read:, “A 22-year-old HND 1 female student of the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun state, Susan Isoyo, was on Saturday, April 15, arrested opposite the second gate of the institution for dealing in illicit drugs. Recovered from her include 1,100ml of codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of cannabis.

“This is just as operatives in Lagos arrested two suspects, Nonso Peter, 21, and Bright Chibike, 23, with 43.4kg cannabis at Ile-Epo, in the Abule Egba area of the state on Friday, April 14.”

In a similar development, the NDLEA officials nabbed a businessman identified as Cyril Chidiebere.

The businessman was arrested alongside two of his freight agents, Mejabi Sunday and Oyeyinka Babatunde, for their involvement in the importation of 12 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 6.50kg, which was part of a consolidated cargo brought in from the United States of America (USA).

“Following the arrival of the cargo at the NAHCO import shed of the MMIA, its movement out of the airport was closely monitored in a sting operation until the actual importer, Cyril Chidiebere, was arrested in his house at Abraham Adesanya Estate, Ajah, Lekki area of Lagos,” the statement added.

Chidiebere was, however, said to have admitted to the crime.