Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have arrested a Lekki Lagos-based female lawyer, Ebikpolade Helen, who specialises in production and distribution of skuchies, a mixture of cannabis, opioids and black currant.
This was disclosed in a statement signed the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, on Sunday July 16, 2023.
The agency stated that the lawyer was arrested in a follow up operation in Awka, Anambra state following an earlier seizure of 5kg cannabis and 12 bottles of prepared skuchies in her apartment at Lekki.
Three other suspects in Mushin and Ikorodu
According to the NDLEA, one Abubakar Shuaibu was arrested on Thursday 13th July at Cappa, Mushin/Oshodi road with 86 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup weighing 8.6 litres in his Toyota bus marked FFA 241YB.
“Two other suspects: Razak Ogunbo and Adeola Idowu were nabbed on Tuesday 11th July at Ikorodu with 51 litres of skuchies,” the agency said.
“This is even as 372kg cannabis sativa and 48 bottles of skuchies measuring 48 litres were recovered from the home of a fleeing drug dealer at Akala, Mushin Lagos on Wednesday 12th July,” the agency added.
