Pregnant Woman, 2 Others Arrested In Connection With 3.2m Fake Naira Notes In Abuja
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents have arrested and taken into custody a pregnant woman, Favour Peter, and two others, who were involved in circulation of fake naira notes.
Team@orientactualmags.com learned that the Director of Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this on the agency’s website on Sunday.
The agency had according to him intercepted a commercial bus transporting 3.2 million fake naira notes owned by three suspects; 24-year-old Favour Peter (a pregnant woman), Esther Adukwu (27), and Ochigbo Michael (39) while adding that they were arrested at Jabi motor park in Abuja.
‘Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a commercial bus conveying N3.2m counterfeit cash owned by three suspects: eight-month pregnant Favour Peter, 24; Esther Adukwu, 27, and Ochigbo Michael, 39, who were arrested at Jabi motor park in Abuja in a follow up operation on Tuesday, April 9 following the seizure of the fake naira notes in Lokoja, Kogi state.
The NDLEA officers have also in collaboration with men of the Nigerian Navy Ship Lugard Base, Lokoja intercepted 37-year-old Aliyu Lawal along Lokoja-Abuja Road on Monday, April 8 and recovered 620 blocks of cannabis weighing 310kg from him, while 10 sacks of the same psychoactive substance weighing 98kg were seized along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway by the NDLEA operatives from Jama Obodo, 44, in a commercial bus coming from Ilesha, Osun state enroute Taraba state on Wednesday, April 10’ the statement said-Team@orientactualmags.com Do you have any information you wish to share with us? Do you want us to cover your event or programme? Kindly send SMS to 08059100286, 09094171980 or get in touch via orientactualmag@gmail.com. Thank you
