A nationwide operation of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has yielded bounties harvest of illicit drugs.
The outcome of the raids, which covered the last one week, was revealed by the agency in a statement it issued to newsmen on Sunday.
The statement, signed by its Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, revealed that NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence on September 14, 2024 arrested three suspects: Auwal Abdullahi, Isah Rabiu and Abubakar Da’u, along Bauchi-Gombe Road while travelling in a DAF truck marked GME 552 ZU.
A search of the vehicle led to the seizure of 2,490,000 pills of tramadol concealed with bags of salt.
A suspect, Idris Adamu, 23, was arrested with 41.5 kilograms of cannabis sativa at Kachia town, Kaduna State on September 10, while two suspects: Godiya Sekyen Jikuk, 36, and Yusuf Umaru, 65, were nabbed at Isinbode-Ekiti, Ekiti State with a total of 73.6kg cannabis on September 11.
In Bauchi State, no fewer than 208,920 pills of tramadol and diazepam were seized from a suspect, Chinedu Asadu, 35, on September 13, while 104kg of cannabis was recovered from two suspects: Abba Abdullahi and Mustapha Yahaya, along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway on September 10 by operatives in Lagos State.
Not less than 350,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup were discovered by NDLEA operatives in two containers shipped from India during a joint examination of the containers with men of Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies at the Tincan port in Lagos on September 10.
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The containers were part of those targeted by NDLEA for 100 percent examination.
With the same vigour, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities among others in the past week.
These include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Government Secondary School, Galamawa and Government Junior Secondary School, Kaci, Dutse, Jigawa State; students of Kukudus Islamic School, Minna, Niger State; nurses and midwives at University of Benin Teaching Hospital School of Nursing, Ugbowo, Benin City, Edo State; members of Vulcanisers Association of Nigeria in Ibarapa Central Local Government Area of Oyo State; Muslim faithful at Central Mosque, Demsa, Adamawa State; and WADA advocacy visit to the Emir of Rano, Kano State, Alhaji Muhammad Isah Umaru.
