Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 300 level university student, Rhoda Agboje along with her boyfriend, Ifeanyi Nwankwo, for producing and selling drug cookies to school children and unsuspecting members of the public in Abuja. The Agency disclosed that Rhoda was arrested with four pieces of the drug cookies on Sunday 18th April, 2021, at the NNPC Cooperative estate, opposite Gaduwa estate in Abuja. She was arrested following complaint that she gave an unsuspecting, young girl the cookies to eat, after which the girl lost her mind and couldn't sleep, making incoherent utterances due to the effect of the cookies. Upon investigation, Rhoda confessed that she prepares the cookies with a friend and sells each pack of three pieces at N1,500. A follow up operation in her boyfriend's house led to the recovery of over 200 pieces of the drug cookies. One of the suspect, who is involved in producing the cookies with Arizona, a highly psychoactive variant of cannabis; alcohol and rohypnol among other ingredients, is still at large. NDLEA disclosed that the boyfriend along with all the equipment used in the production of the cookies were brought to the office for further investigation. Also, the suspect confirmed that she sells at parties, unsuspecting members of the public like school children who are most vulnerable, and some supermarkets and clubs in the FCT. Chairman of the NDLEA, Brig. General Mohamed Marwa stated that what the suspects were doing is not only criminal but equally unconscionable by deliberately selling luring school children into drug under the cover of selling to them cookies. He urged parents to be aware of the new strategy to get children addicted to drug cookies and to remain vigilant whole monitoring what their wards bring home from school to consume. 
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