A dismissed staff of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Ezekiel Adamu Pam, has been caught with 254kg of cannabis.
According to Niger State NDLEA, the 46 year-old ex-staff was arrested on 9 October, with 254kg of dried weeds suspected to be cannabis sativa.
The Acting Commander of the agency in the state, Mr Aloye Oludare, said the suspect was arrested in Mokwa, in Mokwa Local Government Local Area.
Oludare said Adamu Pam with staff Number SN 5454 was dismissed last year.
”They loaded the car in Ado Ekiti in company of another suspect who escaped heading to Adamawa state,” Oludare said.
He said that the suspect would be charged to court after the agency completed its investigation.
The Acting Commander appealed to the public to always report any suspicious activity or individuals to relevant authorities.
Such whistleblowing, he said, will enable the agency to rid the state of drug trafficking and its attendant crimes.
Read people’s comments and reactions below;
Joseph Joseph: That you are a security agent does not makes you a Saint.
There was life before applying into the force job.
87% of law enforcement agents are as bad is this one here.
I call on the protesters to safe guard their lives. They should learn to be security cautions. Sponsor hooligans are on a rampage
Maik Nonso: The table e yaff turn around🥴 So sad! This happens in all sectors, agencies, ministries, etc in this country… But a change of government i.e fresh positive and right thinking youthful minds can correct the decays, ills and wrongs done by our old greedy, evil and what have u poliTHIEFcians has done… It can always better💯 #IBelieveInaYouthfulGovernment✊🏼
Azeez Abiodun: I’m very sure he has been in this since wen he was still very much in Ndlea.Hmmm…nothing is constant in dis life apart from change
Okike Barnabas: First, he might be guilty but that doesn’t justify the beating he received which is clearly showing on his face. That’s one of the things we’re fighting now. Yes he’s might be guilty but allow the court to decide and end police brutality
Second, this sums up everything. We’re fighting just the police now while all security agencies, the Army, Custom, EFCC, NAFDAC, NDLEA, even the Navy are all guilty of illegal dealings on uniform and they all need to sanitized, properly investigated and prosecuted.
Martin FitzStanley: Why does he look like this..? What provision of the law makes room for a suspect to be brutalized in this manner even before standing before a credible court of the land.
#EndSARS
God’stime Iyayi: Hmmmmm,his face alone says it all.
Them don torture am wella.
But what would make a former officer, who worked for NDLEA,go into this kind of illegal business??.To me,he has been doing it even when he was still working for NDLEA.
Horlar Horlar: All the Nigeria forces are corrupt already and they all need reformation.
Imagine someone that needs to supervise and deal with drug dealers doing and carrying out the same offence. I think there is more light to be shed on this matter.
Chunksta Ezegbe: After arresting him what next?.
You will carry the weed…
Sale some, smoke some and keep some.
Weed should be legalised in Nigeria.
Not only policies that would be harmful should Nigeria government imitate from America.
They should also consider the medicinal marijuana legislation which was passed into the American constitution
In Washington DC
and do the needful.