The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested one ABDULMUMINI MAIKASUWA, a 52-year-old man, for attempting to circulate fake $4,760,000.
NDLEA spokesperson, FEMI BABAFEMI, disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday.
He said operatives of the agency intercepted the money sent from Lagos to Abuja at the Abaji area of the federal capital territory (FCT) last Friday.
The Inspector General of Police Intelligence Response Team (IRT), ACP ABBA KYARI, as the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) launches into the probe of the seizure of a large consignment of Tramadol, an illegal drug, in Lagos.
The alleged seizure, it was learnt, was not disclosed to the agency.
The NDLEA reportedly commenced the probe as those close to KYARI in the police were believed to be worried that more alleged illegalities linked to the team led by the police officer may be uncovered.
KYARI had been arrested last week after the NDLEA busted a drug ring operating the Brazil – Ethiopia – Nigeria route.
The agency alleged that he was a member of the syndicate and went ahead to ask a court to extend his detention to facilitate investigation into the activities of his team.
Some Nigerians have been reacting to the arrest of ABBA KYARI.
The embattled Deputy Commissioner of Police, ABBA KYARI has claimed that members of the proscribed Indigenous People of Biafra (IPOB) and Eastern Security Network (ESN) are behind his travails.
According to a report obtained by Daily Trust, KYARI made this claim when he appeared before a probe panel led by JOSEPH EGBUNIKE, a Deputy Inspector-General of Police (DIG) at the Force Headquarters, Abuja.
In a report submitted by the panel to the Inspector-General of Police, USMAN BABA, which was in turn forwarded to the Police Service Commission, KYARI said the outlawed IPOB and its armed wing were after him due to the onslaught launched against them in the South East.
KYARI, who did not deny violating social media rules of the Nigeria Police Force (NPF), was berated by the panel for the fact that the officer had been warned against the same practice previously.
But the panel, which faulted his claim, saying it is watery, ordered his demotion from the rank of Deputy Commissioner of Police to Assistant Commissioner of Police.
In another vein, KYARI and four others may spend more time in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency as the NDLEA has approached a Federal High Court in Abuja informing the court of its intention to detain the suspects beyond the stipulated 48 hours.
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested one Okoli Collins Ikenna, whom the agency described as a “notorious drug dealer,” for allegedly masterminding recent attempts to export illicit drugs to London through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement disclosed that Okoli had been on bail following his arrest in November 2020 and subsequent arraignment before a Lagos Federal High Court for attempting to export 15.700kgs of Methamphetamine to Australia.
Series of investigations into recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to the UK led to the arrest of the drug dealer when he was caught with 78 parcels of cannabis concealed in black soap packs and labelled as Dudu Osun, with a total weight of 12.250 kilograms heading to the United Kingdom.
Further investigation also linked Okoli to the attempt to export 7.350kgs of cannabis to the UK on Thursday 21st October, a consignment that was intercepted at the NAHCO export shed of the MMIA.
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