NDLEA Operatives Intercept Fake $4.7m

<h4>NDLEA Operatives<&sol;h4>&NewLine;<p><strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a> <&sol;strong>reports that operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency&comma; NDLEA&comma; have foiled attempt by a syndicate to steal at least N2&period;7 billion from the Nigerian economy by pushing into circulation fake &dollar;4&period;7 million cash&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The operatives had in the early hours of Friday 18th February 2022 intercepted a consignment sent from Lagos to Abuja at Abaji area of the Federal Capital Territory&period; A controlled delivery of the parcelled counterfeit US dollars totalling &dollar;4&comma; 760&comma; 000&period;00 led to the arrest of a principal suspect&comma; 52-year-old Abdulmumini Maikasuwa&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Femi Babafemi&comma; Director&comma; Media &amp&semi; Advocacy&comma; says in a statement sent to NAOSRE on Sunday that the seizure followed intelligence received by the FCT Command of the Agency detailing the movement of the cash and the vehicle conveying it&period; Meanwhile&comma; Chairman&sol;Chief Executive of NDLEA&comma; Brig&period; Gen&period; Mohamed Buba Marwa &lpar;Retd&rpar; has directed that both the cash and the suspect in custody be transferred to the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission&comma; EFCC&comma; for further investigation&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Kwara state&comma; barely three weeks after a nursing mother&comma; Mrs&period; Rashidat Adebayo&comma; 38&comma; was granted administrative bail following her arrest for dealing in illicit drugs&comma; operatives have again arrested her in Offa with assorted drugs such as Tramadol&comma; Swinol&comma; Diazepam and Pentazocine injection ampules&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Before her latest arrest on Thursday 17th February&comma; the nursing mother had been arrested and granted bail on 24th January 2022 for dealing in similar drugs&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the same vein&comma; NDLEA officers have arrested two drug dealers&colon; Sani Isa &lpar;aka Bilaz&rpar; and Bala Yerima in Hong&comma; Adamawa state with 239 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 209kg&comma; just as operatives of the Bauchi state Command have intercepted a truck marked FFF 422 XB coming from Lagos to Maiduguri&comma; at Azare&comma; Bauchi&period; A total of 164&period;8kg of cannabis sativa concealed in peak milk cartons was recovered from the truck&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;The NDLEA Chief Executive has commended the officers and men of the FCT Command for their vigilance and preventing counterfeit &dollar;4&period;7 million from going into the streets&period; He charged them and their counterparts in Adamawa&comma; Kwara&comma; Bauchi and others across the country not to rest on their oars&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&nbsp&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;