{"id":103597,"date":"2023-03-13T03:50:45","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/?p=103597"},"modified":"2023-03-13T03:50:45","modified_gmt":"2023-03-13T02:50:45","slug":"ex-boko-haram-fighter-traditional-ruler-35-others-arrested-for-drug-trafficking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pointblanknews.com\/pbn\/news\/ex-boko-haram-fighter-traditional-ruler-35-others-arrested-for-drug-trafficking\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Boko Haram fighter, traditional ruler, 35 others arrested for drug trafficking"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"m#msg-f:1760193985399083468\" class=\"mail-message expanded\">\n<div class=\"mail-message-header spacer\" style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday disclosed the arrest of ex-boko haram fighter, traditional ruler, and 35 others for drug trafficking<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-content collapsible zoom-normal mail-show-images \" style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<div class=\"clear\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\n<div dir=\"auto\">\nThe Commission made this known in a statement released on their Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>Part of the statement read, \u201c As NDLEA intercepts heroin, skunk in deep freezers, cooking gas cylinders at Lagos airport, Idiroko, destroys 39.8 hectares of cannabis farms in Edo, and Ondo, a rehabilitated ex-fighter of the Boko Haram terror group, Alayi Madu, and the traditional ruler of Kajola, a border community between Ondo and Edo state, Baale Akinola Adebayo are among 37 persons arrested over 2.2 tons of illicit drugs seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos and in raids across 12 states in the past week.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs part of ongoing operations to mop up illicit drugs across the country ahead of the next round of elections, NDLEA officers in the early hours of Friday 10th March, stormed Kajola forest in Kajola community, a border town between Edo and Ondo state where they destroyed three cannabis farms measuring 39.801546 hectares.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe owner of the farms who claims to be the Ba\u2019ale of Kajola, Akinola Adebayo, 35, was arrested on the farm at 2:30am, while two other suspects believed to be his workers: Arikuyeri Abdulrahman, 23 and Habibu Ologun, 25, were also nabbed in a hut near the farms.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"mail-message-footer spacer collapsible\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday disclosed the arrest of ex-boko haram fighter, traditional ruler, and 35 others for drug trafficking The Commission made this known in a&hellip;<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Related Posts generic via filter on wp_trim_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":98152,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-103597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.8 - 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