Two grandfathers are now in the net of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for their evil plot against secondary school students.
The two, 84-year-old Godfrey Orji and 75-year-old Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora, have allegedly been supplying and selling illicit drugs to such students in the Abia State capital of Umuahia, a practice that is a direct threat to their lives and wellbeing.
They were arrested in separate operations by operatives of the agency, a statement released on Sunday by NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, says.
The statement states that Obiora was arrested on June 19 following intelligence reports that he was selling illicit substances to students and other users from his patent medicine store.
“Pa Obiora was arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday, 19th June 2026, following credible intelligence that he was selling illicit substances to young students and others in his patent medicine store located at 4 Club Road, Umuahia, where 4.64 kilograms of opioids, including tramadol and diazepam, were recovered from him during a search of his premises.”
The agency said Orji, a pensioner, was arrested after he was caught supplying illicit drugs to students of Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia.
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“In his case, Pa Orji, who is a pensioner and also into the illicit drug trade, was nabbed by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia, for supplying illicit drugs to two teenage students in the school. The guards thereafter handed them over to the police, who in turn transferred them to NDLEA on Thursday, 18th June,” Babafemi stated.
He disclosed that one of the teenagers, a 15-year-old Senior Secondary School Two student, admitted during interrogation that the suspect regularly supplied him with drugs.
“In his statement, one of the two teenagers, a 15-year-old SS2 student, claimed the 84-year-old grandpa supplies him the drugs, which he takes and also sells to fellow students,” the statement added.
The NDLEA said for the evil plot, that the two elderly suspects would be prosecuted, while the students had been placed on counselling and rehabilitation programmes.
Meanwhile, the agency also announced a series of drug seizures and arrests across the country.
In Lagos, operatives intercepted a consignment of ADB-Chminaca, a synthetic cannabinoid classified as a dangerous new psychoactive substance, at a courier company. The 9.5kg shipment, which originated from China, was concealed in a carton.
Babafemi said another operation on June 16 led to the seizure of 300 grams of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, hidden inside ladies’ handbags at a logistics company in Lagos.
The agency also raided the residence of a wanted drug dealer, Lukman Badmus, popularly known as Lukman Ogombo, in the Ogombo area of Ajah, Lagos.
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