Chairman of the National Union of Road Transport Workers, Ijero Local Government Area of Ekiti State, Babatunde Babade and two others have been arrested for trafficking illicit drugs.

Femi Babafemi, the Director, Media, and Advocacy of the NDLEA said in a statement that the two others arrested alongside the 45-year old NURTW chairman are 35-year-old Ilesanmi Shola and Babajide Johnson, 45.

The transport union leader was caught with 52.5 kilograms 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.

Babajide, popularly called BB, was taken into custody along with others soon after his arrest at 2 pm on  July 18, 2021, for interrogation.

In his statement, Babafemi said the NURTW chairman admitted he owns the vehicle used for conveying the drug and 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.

He, 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 N60, 000 from him, before he later ran into NDLEA officers while on his way back to Ekiti.