NDLEA arrests lady cross-border trafficker

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a notorious female cross-border drug trafficker in Taraba State.

A Spokesman of the Agency Femi Babafemi said in a statement yesterday that Lami Mai Rigima was on wanted list for months.

Babafemi said she was known for supplying psychoactive substances to traffickers in the state.  He said, “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. The manhunt for Lami paid off on Monday 4th April when operatives tracked her to her hideout in Iware village in Ardo Kola local government area of Taraba. “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 February”

Suspects were also apprehended in Adamawa, Oyo and Kebbi states, with various narcotics recovered from them, the NDLEA said.