NDLEA arrests two elderly men for drug sales to students

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two elderly men, aged 84 and 75, for allegedly selling and supplying illicit drugs to secondary school students in Umuahia, Abia State. The agency announced the arrests on Sunday as part of a wider series of nationwide drug interdictions.

The suspects were identified as 84-year-old Godfrey Orji and 75-year-old Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora. According to the NDLEA's Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, Obiora was arrested on Friday, June 19, at his patent medicine store on Club Road in Umuahia. A search of the premises led to the recovery of 4.64 kilograms of opioids, including tramadol and diazepam, which he allegedly sold to students and others.

Orji, a pensioner, was apprehended by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School in Old Umuahia while allegedly supplying drugs to two teenage students. The guards handed the suspect and the students over to police, who transferred the case to the NDLEA. During interrogation, one of the students, a 15-year-old, stated that the 84-year-old suspect regularly supplied him with drugs, which he both used and sold to fellow students.

The NDLEA stated that the two elderly suspects...