CRIME & COURT

Five female drug dealers arrested in Lagos

 

The women were among 17 persons arrested in the neighborhood, which is notorious for drug dealing.

Femi Babafemi, spokesperson for the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said this in a statement.

He said NDLEA Strike Force operatives “stormed fortified warehouses in the drug den and evacuated bags and bottles of cannabis, loud, skunk, skuchies and methamphetamine”

Also, Jemilat Seriki, another female drug kingpin was also arrested.

Seriki was arrested in relation to 12,385 pellets of loud intercepted by NDLEA at the Eko Atlantic Beach, Victoria Island, Lagos in 2017.

The anti-narcotics agency said it was on her trial for a long time.

“Seriki, aka Iya Ilorin, admitted to being one of the owners of the consignments seized, adding that her bags of drugs had ‘Jah Bless’ written on them.

“When eventually identified and sorted, she had 16 bags with the inscription containing drugs weighing 668.85kg,”, the statement said.

 

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