The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has declared Ibrahim Momoh, also known as ‘Ibrahim Bendel,’ an Abuja drug lord wanted.
According to VisioTalks, the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, stated this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.
According to an NDLEA spokesman, the drug lord escaped from prison to resume his criminal activities. Although the fleeing drug dealer remains at large, his warehouse keeper, 55-year-old Ghanaian Richard Forson Gordon, was apprehended, according to Babafemi.
He claimed that NDLEA agents stormed the notorious drug lord’s warehouse and confiscated 81 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1,278kgs.
Momoh was arrested on November 27, 2014, with the same substance weighing 385.1kgs, prosecuted, convicted, and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on April 22, 2020, but escaped after three months, according to Babafemi.
In a related development, Babafemi stated that NLDEA agents detained a 60-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Ibinosun Sandra Esther, during an operation in Ibadan.
“During the operations, the NDLEA seized 5,527.15 kilograms of methamphetamine and Cannabis Sativa, as well as 132,090 tramadol tablets and 2,000 bottles of codeine across five states and the Federal Capital Territory of Abuja in the last week,” he said.
“The grandma, Mrs. Ibinosun Sandra Esther was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo state in a follow-up operation following the seizure of 5.5kg Loud variant of cannabis imported into the country from South Africa.
“The consignment, which she claimed was sent to her by her daughter was concealed in two giant Speakers as part of a consolidated cargo that arrived at the NAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos on board an Air Peace Airline flight”
Babafemi stated that on Saturday, December 3rd, operatives of the agency arrested a 29-year-old pregnant woman, Kate Ibinabo, with 34.4kgs of Cannabis Sativa in the Okrika area of Rivers State.
However, the Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has directed that she be granted administrative bail until she delivers her baby and returns for prosecution.
