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NURTW Chairman nabbed for drug trafficking in Ondo

Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers (NURTW), in Ijero local government area of Ekiti State, Babatunde Babade, has been arrested for trafficking illicit drugs.

The Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday said the transport union leader was arrested along with two others; Ilesanmi Shola and Babajide Johnson.

Babade was caught with 52.5kilograms of skunk in Akure, the state capital following intelligence that he was conveying bags of the banned drug in his 1997 model blue Mazda car with registration number: Ekiti JER194 AE from Akure to Ekiti state.

Babade, popularly called BB, was taken into custody along with the two others soon after his arrest at about 2:00 pm on Sunday, July 18, for interrogation.

The NURTW boss, in his statement, admitted to owning the vehicle used for conveying the drugs.

He further explained that the car had been intercepted earlier by some security agents who detained the two other suspects, his car and eight bags containing cannabis sativa while his brother who drove the vehicle fled.

He, however, claimed that following his intervention, the security agents released the suspects and his car to him after taking two of the eight bags containing the drugs as well as the sum of N60, 000 from him, before he later ran into NDLEA officers while on his way back to Ekiti.

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