NDLEA Storms Osun illicit Drugs Party, Arrests Organisers

By Akeem Oduyoye

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) raided a lounge in Osogbo, the Osun State capital where a night party organised for illicit substance abuse was planned to be held on Saturday, November 25, and arrested some of the organisers who were found with drug exhibits.

The agency explained that the raid followed credible intelligence that some persons were going to hold a night party tagged, “Unholy Alliance…for Stoners and Drunkards,” where different types of illicit substances were going to be sold and consumed by patrons.

The spokesperson for the anti- narcotic agency, Femi Babafemi, made this disclosure in a statement iisued on Sunday.

 “Soon after the organisers began to gather at Berrymist Lounge located at the Ofatedo area of Osogbo to start the party, the NDLEA operatives swooped on them, arrested them and recovered illicit substances of abuse and drug paraphernalia from them.

“Those arrested include: Ikotu Omolayo, 25; Fola Olabode, 30, and Akorede Adunni Ajibola, 22. The management of the Lounge has also been invited for further investigation. This comes on the heels of an earlier raid on Thursday, November 23, at Area 5 forest reserve, Ile-Ife where operatives recovered 156kgs of cannabis sativa,” Babafemi said.

In another related development, operatives of the agency in Ogun State on Friday, November 24, arrested two suspects, Adamu Ibrahim and Nura Sani, at Ileke trailer garage, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, where 859 kilograms of cannabis sativa concealed among bags of sugar in a truck for onward transport to Mokwa, Niger state.