Juliet Jacob Ochenje
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives deployed in Kano state, on Wednesday apprehended a 28-year-old female, Bilkisu Suleman alleged to be a supplier of ammunition to armed bandits.
In a statement issued by director media and advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi in Abuja, on Sunday, the agency further disclosed that the suspect was arrested in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black bag kept in her lady’s handbag.
Mr Babafemi emphasised that among the 12 suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in the new year interdiction operations conducted in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states, the apprehension of the alleged suspect was given the highest priority.
According to the statement, “She was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, katsina state when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
“The military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday, 2nd January transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37 and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.”.
