Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the last one week made massive seizures of illicit drugs nationwide.
The details of the different operations were contained in a statement issued by the agency to the media on Sunday.
According to the statement endorsed by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, operatives in Oyo State on January 11 raided a clandestine skuchies factory operated by Oyadeji Dimeji, 28, in Moniya area of Ibadan, where 76.6kg of cannabis sativa, 134 grams of tramadol, 93 grams of rophynol and 50 litres of already produced skuchies, a liquid mixture containing various types of psychoactive substances, were recovered.
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In Ondo State, four suspects: David Iyoragie, 34; Adams Idowu, 28; Ibrahim Audu Abdullahi, 54; and Ayomide Henry Ayuba, 20, were arrested at De-Rock View Hotel, Gadson Junction, off Ado-Ekiti Road, Igoba, Akure North Local Government Area on January 12 with 524.5kg cannabis.
Another suspect, Aniekeme Eyibio, 26, was also nabbed at Ala forest, Akure North LGA, where 293.5kg of the same psychoactive substance and a Dane gun were recovered from him.
While 67-year-old Franklin Eze was arrested at Otuo, Owan East LGA, Edo State on January 11 with 454 blocks of cannabis weighing 311kg loaded in his Lexus salon car marked EBM 812 AA, Abdullahi Shuaibu, 43, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives on January 9 at Ayangba, Dekina LGA Kogi State with 43 blocks of compressed cannabis, weighing 22kg and three pinches of methamphetamine.
In Katsina State, a suspect, Danladi Adamu, aged 24 was nabbed on January 10 with 25.5kg cannabis sativa during a buy and bust operation at Kurmi Primary School in Malumfashi metropolis, while operatives in Gombe arrested Sulaiman Mohammed at Lapandimtai, Kaltungo, with 47 blocks of same substance weighing 30kg concealed in two sacks of groundnut.