Two UNILORIN Students Arrested For Producing, Selling Drug-laced Cupcakes

TWO students of the University of Ilorin, Kwara State, Khadijat Abdulraheem and Ayomide Morakinyo have been arrested for producing and selling drug-laced cupcakes to fellow students.

Khadijat Abdulraheem, 24,
a fresh graduate of the institution and 20-year-old Ayomide Morakinyo were arrested on Sunday 29th December, 2024, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at Tanke-University of Ilorin road, Oke Odo, Ilorin, based on credible intelligence.

Suspects

Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, in a statement on Sunday, said that when their apartment was searched, 42 pieces of drugged cakes were recovered from them.

Similarly, an ex-convict, Sodade Sunday Eniola, who was arrested by operatives of the Tincan Command of NDLEA in June, 2024, for drug trafficking, prosecuted and sentenced to four years in prison, has been arrested again by officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency for passport racketeering.

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When he was convicted by a Federal High Court in Lagos on 14th June 2024, the trial judge gave him an option of paying N750,000 fine, which he paid and was let go.

Suspect

However, in a series of operations in December 2024, NDLEA operatives at the export shed of the Lagos airport intercepted no fewer than 52 passports of different countries from shipments going to Canada, Russia, and other countries concealed in shoe soles and food items.

Further investigations led to the arrest of four members of three syndicates involved in the racket.

The arrested suspects included: Sodade Sunday Eniola; Ayinde Saheed Awwal; Salaudeen Afeez Ayode; and Sheriff Adebayo Bamigbade.

Both the exhibits and the suspects were, on Monday 30th December 2024, handed over to the Zonal Command of the Nigerian Immigration Service in Lagos for further investigation and possible prosecution.

No fewer than 316, 800 bottles of codeine-based syrup were recovered from two containers by NDLEA officers at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne Rivers State during a joint examination of the shipments with men of Nigeria Customs and other security agencies on Tuesday 31st December 2024.

The seizure followed credible intelligence processed by the Port Harcourt Port Command of the Agency.

Suspects

In Kano, NDLEA operatives, on Tuesday 31st December 2024, raided Mafarki, Dan Dishe area of Dala LG where they recovered 149, 090 pills of tramadol and exol-5 from a local dealer, 45-year-old Ismail Muhammad.

With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.

These included: WADA sensitisation lecture to traders at Ido-Osi Central Market, Ido Ekiti, Ekiti state; and Muslim faithful during their Juma’at prayer at Birnin Kudu central mosque, Jigawa State, among others.

While commending the officers and men of MMIA, Lagos, Kano, PHPC and Kwara Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts are well appreciated.