Authorities of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have warned owners and operators of supermarkets and confectionaries to rid their stores of drug cookies, biscuits and other products laced with illicit drug substances.
The directive is contained in a statement signed by the Agency’s Director of Media, Femi Babafemi.
NDLEA Chairman, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (Rtd) cautioned the business operatives while receiving further briefing on follow up activities from the Commander, FCT Command of the Agency, Mohammed Sokoto over the arrest of a 300-level university student, Rhoda Agboje and her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, who specialise in producing and selling drugged cookies to school children, supermarkets and clubs in the nation’s capital.
The statement read in part that, “the NDLEA will not shy away from hitting their production spots, supply and sales outlets before getting into the hands of innocent school children, unsuspecting members of the public and even our vulnerable young men and women. We won’t rest on this until we chase them out of this criminal business” end of quote.
Giving a description of the Abuja drug cookies to alert consumers, the biscuits are said to be packaged in designed paper wraps under the name “Function” with its motto as “function right with every bite”.
At the back of the package is a quote the suspects attribute to God to justify their illicit trade; “Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seeds, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for food.”
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Recall that narcotics agents with the FCT Command of the NDLEA had last weekend uncovered a syndicate involved in producing the cookies with Arizona, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis; alcohol and Rohypnol among other ingredients.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
