NDLEA arrests Queen of drug cartel, cross-border trafficker

Months after being on their wanted list, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested one Lami Mai Rigima, said to be a notorious queen of drug cartel, supplying psychoactive substances to traffickers in Taraba state.

Fresh Angle International, understands that the 40-year-old queen of the drug world, came under the anti-narcotic agency's searchlight, when a number of traffickers arrested in the state in 2021 and early this year, fingered her as their supplier.

NDLEA, in a statement released today, Wednesday April 6, disclosed that the manhunt for Lami paid off on Monday April 4, when operatives tracked her to her hideout in Iware village in Ardo Kola Local Government Area of Taraba State.

The NDLEA statement, which was signed by the Agency’s Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, explained: “The search for Lami, began in October 2021 following the arrest, prosecution and conviction of a drug dealer, Abdullahi Madaki, 50. After serving his brief jail sentence, Madaki returned to the illicit trade with Lami still as his supplier. He was however rearrested on 13th February 2022 while another trafficker, Jamilu Hassan, 20, who is also a member of Lami's supply chain, was nabbed on 24th Feb”.

According to the statement, operatives of the agency, arrested a cross border drug trafficker, Emeka Okiru, 40, with 32,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg at Adamawa. 

Emeka Okiru, was arrested at Garden City MUDI, MUDI North Local Government Area on Tuesday April 5, while preparing to supply his customers, who came from Republic of Cameroon. The drugs were found concealed in cartons of paintbrush.

In Oyo state, different quantities of Cocaine, amphetamine and cannabis, were recovered from four suspects: Adetola Tosin; Akeem Kazeem; Korede Ahmed, and Abdulgafar Nureni, who were arrested in Omi-Adio, Ido LGA; Oje area of Ibadan North Local Government Area; Iwo Road, Ibadan North East Local Government Area and Sabo, Mokola, Ibadan North West Local Government Area, when operatives raided parts of the state on Tuesday April 5.

At least, 172 kilograms of cannabis was recovered from two suspects: Zaidu Mohammed Kamba and Hussaini Dauda in Kamba area of Kebbi state on Monday 4^th April by NDLEA operatives.

While commending the officers and men of the Taraba, Adamawa, Kebbi and Oyo state Commands of the Agency for their efforts, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) charged them and their compatriots in other commands across the country, to sustain the tempo of offensive action against the drug cartels in every part of Nigeria.

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