Two suspected drug traffickers have been apprehended by the National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Kano Command. The suspects named Abdul Abubakar Mohammed and Ibrahim Mustapha, were arrested with 2.927kg of cocaine, said to be the first of its kind in the state.
Parading
the suspects before news men on Saturday in Kano, the Commander, Dr.
Ibrahim Abdul said luck ran out of the two suspects after his men
trailed them to a hotel on Katsina Road, in Fage Local Government Area
of the state after two months of investigation.
According to him,
the command’s shift from reactive to proactive investigative methods
led to the successful arrest of the suspects whom he said has already
started swallowing the parcels before taking off to Sudan from where
they will continue their journey to Saudi Arabia through the sea.
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We have adopted proactive methods for effective policing and
investigations as it relates to drugs. We have been on the trail of the
suspects for the past two months after intelligence gathering by our
vigilant officers”.
This is happening after the recent execution
of a Nigerian woman as well as arrests by the Saudi Arabia authorities
for drug trafficking.
The two suspects, while interviewed by
news men said that they hail from Maiduguri and are both business men
who deals in Caps and Cola nuts respectively but lost their source of
livelihood due to Boko Haram insurgency.
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