National drug law enforcement agency, has arrested thirty suspects for drug trafficking and other related offenses….
The assistant commandant Operation, Ondotimi Bebetu who made this know while parading the suspects, say they were raided from different locations in Benin City, Â the Edo state capital….
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These are the thirty suspects, fifteen male and fifteen female and between the age of twenty to twenty five who were arrested by operatives of the national drug law enforcement agency in edo state over their alleged involvement in the use of drugs,drug trafficking and other offenses…..
The NDLEA say they also arrested an intra city vehicle loaded with tramadol tablets worth thousands of hundreds of naira ..
It was discovered when some of the officers of the command stopped the vehicle carrying illicity drug during a stop and search exercise…
According to them, the operation became necessary following the governor’s marching orders to the command to mop up illicit drugs across the state…
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Some of the suspects tell their own side of the story …
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The agency say raids and arrest of this nature will continue as it carrys out it’s mandate to stamp out trafficking and illicity use of drugs in the state…
