A 76-year-old grandfather, Osagie Robert, has been arrested in the Egor, Oredo area of Edo State for importing drug chocolates and cookies from Canada into Nigeria to sell, IgbereTV reports.
Also arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) is a suspected fake security agent, Godwin Ilevbare, a.k.a Edwin Agbon.
The septuagenarian, popularly called old soldier, was arrested on January 7, for dealing in Cannabis while Ilevbare was nabbed during a controlled delivery of a consignment shipped into Nigeria through a courier company.
Soon after the suspect signed for the consignment, undercover operatives embedded in the courier firm arrested him at his apartment in Benin city on January 4.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed the arrest via a statement on Sunday, said the consignment, which emanated from Canada, contains Colorado brand of Cannabis concealed inside chocolates and cookies weighing 6.491 kilograms, while the drug cookies and chocolates weighed 5.566 kg and 0.383 kg respectively
