NDLEA arrest heavily pregnant woman with Meth in Edo

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 25-year-old pregnant woman, Haruna Favour, with 82 pinches of methamphetamine in Auchi, Edo State.

Favour was arrested on Friday, September 9, with methamphetamine and various quantities of Loud, Arizona, and Colorado variants of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup.

The Director of Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the arrest on Sunday, September 11.

Also, in Kogi State, a suspect, Paul Ali, aged 47, was arrested on the Okene-Abuja highway with 1,404 bottles of Codeine based syrup weighing 190.94kg and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection coming from Onitsha, Anambra State to Sokoto State.