NDLEA Arrests Two Grandfathers for Allegedly Selling Drugs to Secondary School Students in Abia
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested two elderly men, aged 84 and 75, in Abia State for allegedly selling illicit drugs to teenage secondary school students. One suspect was found with opioids, including tramadol and diazepam, while the other was accused of supplying drugs directly to students.
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NDLEA has arrested two elderly men aged 84 and 75 for allegedly supplying illicit drugs to secondary school students in Umuahia, while recording major drug seizures and arrests across several states.
An 84-year-old man, Godfrey Orji, and another 75-year-old, Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora, both grandfathers, are now cooling their heels in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after being arrested for dealing in illicit substances, which they sell to teenage secondary school students in Umuahia, the capital of Abia State.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
Babafemi said Pa Obiora was arrested by NDLEA operatives last Friday following credible intelligence that he was selling illicit substances to young students and others in his patent medicine store on 4 Club Road, Umuahia, where 4.64 kilograms of opioids, including tramadol and diazepam, were recovered from him during a search of his premises.
The spokesman said that in Pa Orji’s case, the elderly man, who is a pensioner and also involved in the illicit drug trade, was nabbed by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia, for supplying illicit drugs to two teenage students (names withheld) at the school.
Babafemi said the guards thereafter handed them over to the police, who, in turn, transferred them to the NDLEA on Thursday.
Babafemi said in his statement that one of the two teenagers, a 15-year-old SS2 student, claimed the 84-year-old grandpa supplies him with the drugs, which he takes and also sells to fellow students
“In another interdiction operation in Lagos, NDLEA officers on Friday, 19th June, raided the home of a wanted drug dealer, Lukman Badmus (a.k.a. Lukman Ogombo), in the Ogombo area of Ajah, where nine bottles of codeine syrup and 30 grams of skunk were recovered.”
“A swift follow-up operation at Lukman’s wife’s shop in the Patey area of Lagos Island led to the recovery of an additional two bottles of codeine and drug paraphernalia, while 42 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 22.5 kg were also recovered from a minibus parked in front of her shop. An attempt by the wife, Aisha Saraki, to flush some of the drug exhibits in the toilet during the raid was thwarted by operatives.”
Babafemi said that in Kogi State, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Okene/Lokoja highway on Friday intercepted a suspect, Tochukwu Onah, 33, coming from Lagos to Abuja with 1.030 kg of methamphetamine concealed in custard containers.
He added that a couple, James Tony Chukwudi, 48, and James Kehinde, 35, wanted in connection with the seizure of 117 kilograms of skunk since 26th March, 2026, in Ekiti State, were eventually arrested at Oniyo Street, Efon-Alaaye-Ekiti, on Tuesday, 16th June, after months on the run.
The statement reads, “In Oyo State, 75-year-old Tudun Olubiyi and two others, Nasiru Buhari, 22, and Buba Musa, 47, were arrested by NDLEA operatives when their house, located in the Dangote area, Elekara, Oyo town, was raided on Saturday, 20th June, with 118 jumbo bags containing 1,416 kg of skunk, covered with sawdust, recovered.
“With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among others, in the past week. These include: WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Orun Community Grammar School, Orun Ekiti; Government Girls Secondary School, Charanchi, Bichi, Kano; Federal Technical College, Doma, Nasarawa; Tafida Community Secondary School, Zango, Katsina; and Government Technical College, Onitsha, Anambra, while the Rivers State Command paid a WADA advocacy visit to the Paramount Ruler of Rumuogba Kingdom, Rivers State, HRH Barr. Temple Ejekwu, among others.”
“While commending the officers and men of the DOGI, Abia, Ekiti, Oyo, Lagos, Kogi, and Edo Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), noted their efforts to reduce drug supply, balanced with WADA sensitisation activities, and charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels,” Babafemi said.
