Seme Command hands over suspects to NDLEA

The Seme Area Command of Nige­ria Customs Service has arrested and handed over 40 wraps of hard drugs and two suspects to National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

Comptroller Dimka Victor hand­ed over the two suspects (Mr. Abdulla­hi Ismail and Mr. Valentine Malizu) who were arrested for being in possession of 40 wraps of substances suspected to be illicit hard drugs concealed inside car­tons of crayfish. It was gathered the seized drugs weight about 43.4kg with a value of N412,300.00.

He disclosed that the seizure was made possible by the Border Patrol Crack Team ‘A’ led by CSC Ozah, M.O. acting on in­telligence report which was properly and timely handled as leading to the arrest.

According to him, the Crack Team acted swiftly on information gathered at Elijah, and the duo were arrested as at­tempts by the suspects to bribe the Bor­der Patrol Officers was resisted.

“The suspects were also found to be in possession of over nine (9) different SIM cards and assorted charms,” he noted.

THE AUTHORITY gathered that the handing over was performed by the Cus­toms Area Controller to Senior Narcotics Idrees, D.U who represented the Com­mander of NDLEA, Seme.

The CAC re-iterated that the tempo of aggressive patrol within the border will be sustained by his officers warning that all those involved in trans-border crimes should desist from the act or they will continue to face the full wrath of the law.

Already, NDLEA authority has said that scientific analysis of the illicit drugs and the subsequent prosecution of the suspects in court will be the next line of action.