NDLEA arrested 2 grandfathers who supplied drugs to secondary school students

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested two elderly men for allegedly supplying and selling illegal drugs to secondary school students in Umuahia, the Abia State capital.

The suspects, identified as 84-year-old Godfrey Orji and 75-year-old Godwin Obulunbiya Obiora, were arrested in separate operations by operatives of the agency.

According to a statement on Sunday by NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, Obiora was arrested on June 19 following intelligence reports that he was selling banned substances to students and other users of his patent medicine shop.

Babafemi said, “Pa Obiora was arrested by NDLEA agents on Friday, June 19, 2026, following credible information that he was selling prohibited substances to young students and others at his patent medicine shop located at 4 Club Road, Umuahia, where 4.64 kilograms of opioids, including tramadol and diazepam, were recovered from him during a search of his house.”

The agency said Orji, a retiree, was arrested after he was caught supplying illegal drugs to students of Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia.

“In his case, Pa Orji, a retiree and also involved in illegal drug trafficking, was arrested by security guards at Saint Silas Secondary School, Old Umuahia, for supplying illegal drugs to two teenage students at the school. The guards then handed them over to the police, who then transferred them to NDLEA on Thursday, June 18,” Babafemi said.

He revealed that one of the teenagers, a 15 year old SMA 2 student, admitted during interrogation that the suspect regularly supplied him with drugs.

“In his statement, one of the two teenagers, a 15-year-old SS2 student, claimed that the 84-year-old grandfather gave him the drugs, which he consumed and also sold to fellow students,” the statement added.

The NDLEA said although the two elderly suspects would be tried, the students had been placed on a counseling and rehabilitation program.