NDLEA dismantles drug syndicates exploiting women in Nigeria

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has recorded important successes successful dismantling cause trafficking syndicates that enlistee and exploit women for illicit cause operations crossed Nigeria.

The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this during an interrogation with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN), wherever helium outlined the NDLEA’s strategy of targeting not lone cause couriers but besides the masterminds down specified operations.

Babafemi said the bureau remains committed to dismantling networks that prey connected women and different susceptible groups by tracing the concatenation of bid beyond those caught transporting illicit drugs.

“We don’t conscionable halt astatine the level of the traffickers oregon the mules. We travel the concatenation to the apical of the ladder to guarantee that the large masterminds hiding down assorted fronts to enlistee women and susceptible groups into these activities are brought to book. We person been precise palmy successful doing that,” helium said.

According to him, respective investigations involving women recruited into cause trafficking person led to the apprehension and prosecution of the syndicate leaders liable for orchestrating the amerciable operations.

Babafemi noted that the agency’s enforcement efforts are complemented by preventive measures aimed astatine discouraging women from becom...