The National Drug Laws Enforcement Agency NDLEA has arrested Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, NURTW, in Ijero local government area of Ekiti state.

45 year old Babatunde Babade was arrested along with two others Ilesanmi Shola, 35, and Babajide Johnson, 45, for trafficking illicit drug.

This was disclosed in a press statement by the Director Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters Abuja Mr Femi Babafemi in Abuja on Sunday.

The statement read, “the transport union leader was caught with 52.5kilograms of skunk in Akure, the Ondo 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.”

“The suspect admitted he owns the vehicle used for conveying the drug. He further stated that the car was earlier intercepted 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.”

“The suspect 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 drug and sixty thousand naira (N60, 000) from him, before he later ran into NDLEA officers while on his way back to Ekiti.”