NDLEA arrest woman supplying ammunition to bandits on Kano expressway

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended a 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits named Bilkisu Suleman on the Kano expressway.

According to Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA Headquarters, the suspect was arrested with 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition hidden in a black bag within her lady’s handbag.

This arrest is part of a series of interdiction operations carried out by NDLEA operatives in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states, resulting in a total of 13 suspects being apprehended at the beginning of the new year.

“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.

“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on 12th December 2023 close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island. Some armed escorts however resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation, a development which attracted soldiers from the cantonment, who eventually intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the Agency.”