A “Stop-and-Search’’ operation by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on the Lokoja-Abuja Highway has led to the discovery of counterfeit $20m.
The spokesman for NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, stated today in Abuja that the fake currencies were recovered from a bus travelling from Lagos to Abuja.
He stated that the 53-year-old driver of the vehicle was arrested.
Babafemi stated also that one suspect was arrested in a raid on August 17 while in possession of 2.2kg of methamphetamine at Kabusa village, Federal Capital Territory.
He added that the suspect was earlier arrested on July 7, 2022, for being in possession of 20.75kg of Indian hemp and that he was on court bail when he was nabbed for yet another drug crime.
In Osun state, NDLEA operatives destroyed clusters of Indian hemp plantations measuring about 3.5 hectares at Mopatedo in Ifedayo Local Government Area of the state on Saturday, Aug. 19
The NDLEA spokesman added that a wanted 19-year-old bandit, Aliyu Mohammed Altine, was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Illela-Sokoto Road with some wraps of skunk on Thursday, Aug. 17.
Altine was on the wanted list of the police and has since been handed over to the police in Sokoto State for further investigation, Babafemi stated.
