Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended a 63-year-old grandfather, Afolabi Abideen Kolawole, for allegedly shipping illicit substances to his daughter in Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE).

NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi made this known in a statement.

He disclosed that Afolabi was behind an intercepted drug exhibit going to Dubai. It was gathered that his consignment had earlier been intercepted on the 4th of August.

He was however, arrested in Ibadan, Oyo state on Thursday 18th August after more than four sets of arrests eventually unraveled him.

The 63-year-old confessed that he was responsible for the packaging of cannabis inside the black native soap used as mode of concealment.

Meanwhile, a freight agent, Miss Njoko Elizabeth, 37, has been arrested for attempting to export 250grams of Tramadol and cannabis to Dubai through the NAHCO export shed.

Also, over 2.3million tablets of illicit pharmaceutical opioids and other psychoactive substances meant for distribution in seven Northern states of Borno, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Gombe and Nasarawa have been intercepted by operatives of the NDLEA, in series of interdiction operations in the past week.