Tag: NDLEA

Adamawa: Suspected drug dealers incite mob to attack, kill NDLEA official

Ishaku Yohanna

Some suspected drug peddlers in Adamawa State allegedly incited a mob to descend on officials of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), killing one officer and injuring his colleague in the process. Samuel Birma, who was popularly known as Mbakwe, hailed from Hildi in Hong local government area of the state. The anti-narcotics officials were conveying some drug suspects, arrested in Michika, to Yola when they were attacked by a mob in Hong. “On arriving, being a weekly market day of the town, the suspects raised an alarm, shouting…

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Take my life instead of destroying my cannabis farm – Suspect begs NDLEA

Ishaku Yohanna

A suspected cannabis farmer, Clement Akor, has begged the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA to take his life instead of destroying his 10-hectare cannabis plantation. Akor, a 42 years old father of six children from Enabo village in Ankpa Local Government Area of Kogi State was arrested by the Kogi State command of NDLEA alongside his accomplice David Ameh. Akor who claimed he had invested so much in the business and cannot afford to lose it to the arms of the law said he learnt the trade in Owo,…

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