Agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have raided a shrine laden with illicit drugs and guarded by a big black Cobra snake in Igor community, Benin City, Edo state.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said Sunday in a statement that said its operatives detected a specially constructed large hole storage in a wall covered with wallpapers and fetish objects, where the drugs were hidden.
He said different quantities of illicit substances such as methamphetamine, Loud, Colorado and Arizona, all strong strains of cannabis with a total weight of 8.743 kilograms, were pulled out from the deep hole dug in the wall of the shrine building.
According to the statement two ladies: Sonia Chinonso Ezumezu and Risikatu Tijani were arrested during the intelligence-led operation on Tuesday June 18 2024 after the big black snake guarding the shrine was neutralised.
Babafemi said in the same vein, two suspects: Obi Ferguson,45, and Ernest Abanum, 46, were arrested on Saturday June 22 when NDLEA operatives raided the Usen forest in Ovia South West LGA, Edo state where 209kg cannabis and a motorcycle were recovered.
