According to reports published on Sunday, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents arrested Bukar Haruna, a blind man, and Saka Haruna, his son, in Katsina State while armed with drugs.
The agents noticed the couple while they were patrolling the Malumfashi-Zaria Road, according to the information that is currently available.
It was reported that Haruna, 52, and Saka, 30, were travelling to the Niger Republic with 20.5kg of cannabis and 10g of exol-5.
They are natives of the Niger Republic's Damagram region.
In a statement on Sunday, the NDLEA's Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, acknowledged the news.
Babafemi also disclosed that a minimum of 2,685.5kgs of cannabis were found in four separate operations carried out in various sections of Edo State last week.
While 53 bags of Cannabis Sativa, weighing 742.5kgs, were seized on November 2, 2022 at a camp in Esioriri, Owan East Local Government Area, with four suspects: Chukueke Igba, 32; Solomon Peter, 34; Emmanuel Jeremiah, 36; and Happiness Chidi, 37, arrested, another raid in the house of Joy Zubaru, 45, led to her arrest with 30.5kgs of cannabis recovered.
In the same vein, operatives on November 3, 2022 stormed the Egbeta forest in Ovia North East, where they recovered 112 bags of cannabis and eight bags of seeds with a combined weight of 1,598.5kgs, while another team evacuated 27 bags of same substance weighing 314kgs at Amahor village in Igueben LGA.
In Mubi area of Adamawa State, operatives on November 1, 2022 intercepted a Toyota Corolla car transporting 9,600 pills of tramadol.
A follow-up operation later led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Mamuda Ramadan, aka Muller, while another suspect, Alhassan Muhammed, was arrested on October 30, 2022 along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway with 136,000 pills of tramadol concealed inside his car’s spare tyre.