{"id":334429,"date":"2021-04-01T17:04:52","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:04:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=334429"},"modified":"2021-04-01T17:29:12","modified_gmt":"2021-04-01T16:29:12","slug":"ndlea-arrests-chadian-over-drug-trafficking-in-taraba","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/?p=334429","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA arrests Chadian over drug trafficking in Taraba"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"mvp-content-main\">The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Taraba has arrested a 35-year-old Chadian for alleged drug trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Suleiman Jadi, NDLEA Commander in Taraba, made this known in a statement by the agency\u2019s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi on Thursday in Abuja, NAN reports.<\/p>\n<p>He said the suspect, Adama Uomar-Issa, was arrested on Wednesday in Jalingo, in possession of 21.70 kilogrammes of Tramadol 225 milligrammes and 250 milligrammes.<\/p>\n<p>Jadi said that 15.7 kilogrammes of exol.5, the sum of 100,050 France CAF and N61, 000 were also recovered from the suspect.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspect speaks only French and Arabic, he claims to be taking the substances to Chad Republic before his arrest.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investigations have, however, shown that he is a major supplier of illicit drugs to Boko Haram insurgents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAt the point of arrest, it was discovered that the drugs, which he bought from Onitsha were concealed inside new ladies\u2019 handbags and shoes, \u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Recall that the agency earlier arrested a 70-year old Nigerian allegedly supplying illicit drugs to Boko Haram insurgents and bandits.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Taraba has arrested a 35-year-old Chadian for alleged drug trafficking. Mr Suleiman Jadi, NDLEA Commander in Taraba, made this known in a statement by the agency\u2019s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi on Thursday in Abuja, NAN reports. He said the suspect, Adama Uomar-Issa, was arrested [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":334430,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3773,3],"tags":[2658,1566,12153],"class_list":["post-334429","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-crime","category-news","tag-a","tag-ndlea","tag-onitsha"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334429","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=334429"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334429\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/334430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=334429"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=334429"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arewa.ng\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=334429"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}