A 26 year-old medical doctor, Jane Chioma Ofoma, who is a graduate of medicine from the University of Nigeria, Nsukka, and recently completed her housemanship at the University of Benin Teaching Hospital has been arrested in Auchi, Edo State.
Chioma was arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), for allegedly operating an online catering service, Omachi’s kitchen, through which she sells drugged cookies and biscuits.
Following intelligence and surveillance, narcotic officers of the Edo State Command of the Agency on Saturday, June 19, 2021, stormed her operational base at No. 1 Winners way, Auchi, where she was arrested and at least 94 pieces of cookies produced with cannabis Sativa were recovered.
According to NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the suspect, confessed to baking the cookies with skunk in her statement while under interrogation.
Reacting to the arrests, Chairman/CEO of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the Edo State Command of the Agency for their vigilance and commitment to the goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of illicit drug trafficking and abuse.
