Two grandpas arrested for selling illicit drugs to teenage students

by · The Eagle Online

An 84-year-old grandpa, Godfrey Orji, and another 75-year-old grandpa, Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora, are now cooling their heels in the custody of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) following their arrest for dealing in illicit substances, which they sell to teenage secondary school students in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in an update on the activities of the agency.

According to Babafemi in the update that covered June 14 to 20, 2026, Pa Obiora was arrested by NDLEA operatives on June 19, 2026.

This followed 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.

In his case, Pa Orji, who is a pensioner, was nabbed by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia for supplying illicit drugs to two teenage students (names withheld) in the school. 

The guards thereafter handed them over to the police who in turn transferred him to NDLEA on June 18 along with the teenagers.

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. 

While the two grandpas are billed to have their day in court, the students have been placed on counselling and rehabilitation. 

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives have intercepted a consignment of ADB Chminaca, a synthetic cannabinoid classified as a dangerous New Psychoactive Substance (NPS), at a courier firm in Lagos. 

The shipment, coming from China with a gross weight of 9.5 kilograms, was concealed in a carton. 

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This was followed by another seizure on June 16 at a different logistics company in Lagos where 300grams of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, was found hidden in ladies’ handbags.

In another interdiction operation in Lagos, NDLEA officers on June 19 raided the home of a wanted drug dealer, Lukman Badmus, aka Lukman Ogombo, in the Ogombo area of Ajah, where nine bottles of codeine syrup and 30 grams of skunk were recovered.

A swift follow up operation at Lukman’s wife’s shop in Patey area of Lagos Island led to the recovery of additional two bottles of codeine and drug paraphernalia, while 42 compressed blocks of skunk weighing 22.5kg were also recovered from a mini bus parked in front of her shop. 

An attempt by the wife, Aisha Saraki, to flush some of the drug exhibits in the toilet during the raid was thwarted by operatives.

In Kogi State, NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway on June 19 intercepted a suspect, Tochukwu Onah, 33, coming from Lagos to Abuja with 1.030kg methamphetamine concealed in custard containers, while a couple: James Tony Chukwudi, 48, and James Kehinde, 35, wanted in connection with the seizure of 117 kilograms of skunk since March 26, 2026 in Ekiti State, were eventually arrested at Oniyo Street, Efon-Alaaye-Ekiti on June 16 after months on the run.

In Oyo State, 75-year-old Tudun Olubiyi and two others: Nasiru Buhari, 22, and Buba Musa, 47, were arrested by NDLEA operatives when their house located in the Dangote area of Elekara, Oyo town, was raided on June 20 with 118 jumbo bags containing 1,416kg skunk covered with sawdust recovered.

A suspect, Patrick Imoukhede, 45, was arrested on June 17 when NDLEA officers raided the Khagba forest, Ikao, Owan East LGA, where they destroyed 1,744.075kg skunk and recovered already processed 169kg of same substance, while another raid at Ebora Camp, Ilushi in Esan South LGA led to the destruction of 2,424.945kg of cannabis, with a suspect, Augustine Anyamone, 45, apprehended with 395kg skunk in a separate operation in the area. 

With the same zeal, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places, and communities among others in the past week.

These include: WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Orun Community Grammar School, Orun Ekiti, Ekiti State; Government Girls Secondary School, Charanchi, Bichi, Kano State; Federal Technical College, Doma, Nasarawa State; Tafida Community Secondary School, Zango, Katsina State; and Government Technical College, Onitsha, Anambra State, while the Rivers State Command paid an advocacy visit to the Paramount Ruler of Rumuogba Kingdom, HRH Temple Ejekwu, among others.

While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Abia, Ekiti, Oyo, Lagos, Kogi, and Edo Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.), noted their drug supply reduction efforts balanced with WADA sensitisation activities while he charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels.

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