NDLEA Arrests 5-member Women Drug Trafficking Gang At Seme Border

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested five cross-border female drug traffickers at the Seme border.

The team were said to be on their way back to Lagos from Ghana when operatives of a Special Operations Unit of the NDLEA intercepted them.

This is according to a statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi on Sunday.

Babafemi explained that leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Olaribigbe Bashirat Feyisara has been under NDLEA radar before being tracked and arrested on Wednesday, August 21, 2024.

She was apprehended along with other members of her gang: Abogun Fatimah Ladidi; Osibeluwo Tolulope Oluwaseun; Akanni Balikis Oluwatoyin and Ajetumobi Amudalat.

At the point of their arrest at the Seme border, a total of 14 packs of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 6.97kg, were recovered from hidden parts of their bodies.