NDLEA arrests 28-year-old woman who supplies bandits with amunitions

According to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Bilkisu Suleman, a 28-year-old woman who provides bandits with ammunition, has been taken into custody.

In a statement released on Sunday, January 7, Femi Babafemi, the director of media and advocacy at NDLEA Headquarters Abuja, stated that Suleman was the most prominent of the 12 suspects detained by NDLEA agents during the New Year's interdiction operations in the states of Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun.

According to Babafemi, Bilkisu was apprehended on January 3rd by NDLEA officers who were on patrol along the Zaria – Kano motorway. The officers discovered that Bilkisu had 249 rounds of live 7.62 mm ammunition hidden in a black nylon bag that was kept in her lady’s handbag.

The statement read: “She was on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina state when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.

“The military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday 2nd January transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37, and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.

“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on 12th December 2023 close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island. Some armed escorts however resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation, a development which attracted soldiers from the cantonment, who eventually intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the Agency.”

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