By Ife Osemedua
365Daily – A medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Auchi, Edo State, for selling drugged cookies and biscuits.
NDLEA’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement in Abuja.
365Daily recalls that similar arrests were made by the agency in Abuja, including one involving a couple, UNIABUJA undergraduates, who specialised in selling drugged cookies to children.
Babafemi said Chioma sold the drugged cookies and biscuits through an online catering service known as Omachi’s kitchen.
The anti-drug agency Spokesperson said the arrest followed intelligence and surveillance by narcotics officers of the Edo Command of the agency on Saturday, June 19,after which they stormed her operational base at 1 Winners Way, Auchi.
This, he said, led to her arrest and at recovery of at least 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis from the suspect.
According to him, Chioma, 26, who is a graduate of Medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital.
“She has confessed to baking the cookies with skunk in her statement while under interrogation,” he said.
In the same vein, Babafemi said a 30-year-old male, Emmanuel Ehiramhen, of No. 10 Egan Street, Ekpoma, has been arrested by officers of the Edo Command of the agency for dealing in crack cocaine.