Abuja: In a concerted effort to combat drug trafficking and abuse, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has conducted extensive operations across Nigeria, resulting in significant drug seizures and the arrest of multiple suspects.
NDLEA recovered 3,476kg Colorado, 645,906 pills of opioids in Nasarawa while it raided an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, where it recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of Cannabis.
Spanning various states, these operations have led to the recovery of thousands of kilograms of illegal substances, including potent strains of Cannabis and large quantities of opioids, underscoring the Agency’s commitment to eradicating drug-related crimes.
A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja stated that the NDLEA operatives arrested a suspect with drugs weighing 15.63kg.
He said that in another operation in Nasarawa, operatives on August 9 August 9 recovered a large consignment of skunk, a strain of Cannabis weighing 3,093kg.
Babafemi said that the drugs were recovered from three suspects at New Karu.
According to him, another suspect was apprehended at the Geza area of Kumbotso, Kano State, with 639 blocks of skunk weighing 359kg on Friday, August 8.
Babafemi said one suspect was taken into custody on August 6 August 6 after seizing 9kg of Colorado, a synthetic strain of Cannabis, from him along Zaria-Kano road, Kano.
In another interdiction operation in Kano, 20,000 pills of tramadol and 200 ampoules of diazepam injection were recovered from a suspect at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria-Kano road on Friday, August 8 August 8.
He said that at Tudun Wadan Pantami in Gombe town on August 8 August 8, personnel recovered 550 266 pills of opioids, mainly tramadol, with a suspect arrested.
“The following day, Saturday, August 9 August 9, another suspect, Ibrahim Adamu, 23, was arrested by NDLEA officers along Potiskum road, Bajoga, with 50,000 capsules of tramadol.
“Similarly, in Edo state, a white Toyota Hiace bus marked YAB 5522 K coming from Onitsha, Anambra and heading to Isanlu in Kogi was intercepted on Wednesday, August 6August 6, at Ewu junction, Edo.”
Babafemi said that the NDLEA operatives, after a search recovered 23, 940 capsules of tramadol, 1,100 tablets of the same opioid and 400 ampoules of pentazocine injection, with a suspect who was arrested.
Similarly, the Agency’s commands and formations across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities, among others, over the past week.
“These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mind City College, Saki, Oyo; Gwagwarwa Primary School, Nasarawa LGA, Kano; officers of the Nigerian Army 241 Recce Model Battalion, Nguru, Yobe; members of the Engine Grinders Association, Gboko, Benue.
“Also, the Ekiti state command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Ado Ekiti.