Abuja (Nigeria): Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided a nightclub over a drug party in Lagos.
A statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja said that over 100 suspects were arrested, including the club’s owner.
Babafemi said that the club located at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, was busted on Sunday, Oct. 26.
Babafemi said that over 100 suspects, including the club’s owner, were arrested and taken into custody for screening.
“Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
“The raid followed intelligence about the drug party.
“NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11 pm on Saturday, Oct. 25, however, disrupted the gathering at 3 am on Sunday, Oct. 26, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs),” he said.
Also, in Taraba, suspected drug traffickers were arrested on Tuesday, Oct. 21, with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 at the Dan-Anacha checkpoint.
Babafemi said they were nabbed while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.
Similarly, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Okene/Lokoja highway, Kogi, seized 162.200kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a truck on Friday, Oct. 24.
Operatives in Nasarawa state on Wednesday, Oct. 22, recovered 128kg of the same psychoactive substance from a suspect in the Keffi area of the state.
In another development, Babafemi said that the mother of two, who was a major distributor of Canadian and California Loud, both strong strains of cannabis in Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and VGC areas of Lagos, was arrested.
Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives on Friday, Oct. 17, nabbed the suspect during a raid at her Lekki home, where 500 grams of the illicit substances were recovered.
Also, Babafemi said that NDLEA officers raided the home of a suspect on Thursday, Oct. 23, at the Solomade estate in the Ikorodu area of Lagos.
This, he said, was where 275 litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant drink, cannabis and opioids, were recovered.