The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has recorded successes in the last one week following intensified raids and searches.
Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the outcome of the raids in a statement he issued on Sunday.
Babafemi, who listed some of the successes in the statement made available to newsmen via its WhatApp group, said in Taraba State, operatives on October 3, 2024 intercepted a commercial bus marked JAL 198 YQ from Onitsha, Anambra State to Jalingo.
Large quantities of opioids: tramadol, rohypnol and codeine-based syrup, concealed in body compartments of the vehicle were recovered when it was searched, while two suspects: Pako Thomas and Emmanuel Anyigor, were arrested.
Another suspect, Chibuzor Okafor, was arrested at Wukari on October 3 with 80 blocks of cannabis weighing 38kg hidden in bags of garri.
In Lagos, Bolanle Ajenifuja was on October 4 arrested at Afro Media area of Ojo, where 700 litres of skuchies, a mixture of local chapman and cocktail of illicit drugs, were recovered from her, while three suspects: Ezekiel Akpele, Elijah Michael, and Goddard John, were nabbed the same day when NDLEA operatives who raided two cannabis farms located at Bridge Camp, a boundary community between Edo and Ondo States.
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Not less than 9,966.332kg of the substance was destroyed on over three hectares of farmland with 48kg of the already processed psychoactive substance recovered.
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, work places and communities among others in the past week.
These include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Government Science Secondary School, Musawa, Katsina State; students and teachers of Akanu Ibiam Memorial Seminary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi State; students and staff of Community High School, Ile Ogbo, Osun State; and students of Dominion Secondary School, Okon, Akwa Ibom State.
