Nationwide operations by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the last one week yielded massive drug hauls and arrests of suspects.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, revealed this in a statement he issued to newsmen on Sunday.
Babafemi revealed that no fewer than 418,330 pills of tramadol 225mg, 100mg and tapentadol 250mg as well as 8,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup were recovered from a warehouse at a building material market in Onitsha, Anambra State on December 17, 2024 when NDLEA operatives raided the market following credible intelligence.
At the Tincan Island port in Lagos State, a total of 180,000 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered on December 18, 2024 from a container, which originated from Mundra, India.
The seizure was made during a joint examination of the container by operatives of the NDLEA, Nigeria Customs Service, Department of State Services, Nigeria Police, and other security agencies at the port, while a suspect, Makata Emmanuel, who is the consignee and notify party, was promptly taken into custody.
A total of 293,000 capsules of tramadol, a pistol and 26 rounds of 7.65mm live ammunition were recovered from the duo of Ishaya Wabba, 54, and Samaila Audu, 44, when they were arrested in a Toyota Sienna bus at Pompomari Bypass, Maiduguri, Borno State, while another suspect, Sanusi Abdul Hamid, 37, was nabbed at Gwange area of the state capital with 260,000 capsules of the same psychoactive substance on December 16, 2024.
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A 35-year-old suspect, Modu Kolera, was equally arrested on December 18, 2024 at Customs area of Maiduguri with 8.5kg cannabis; 5,000 pills of tramadol; 7,500 tabs of diazepam; 14,500 tablets of exol; and 50 litres of ‘suck and die’, a new psychoactive substance, in his Volkswagen Golf car, marked: DKW 812 AA.
While a suspect Gafar Saminu, 30, was arrested on December 18 with 33.5 kilograms of cannabis sativa, at Ayete, Oyo State, NDLEA operatives in Enugu State on the same day raided the Aria new market, where they recovered 94kg of the same substance.
In Lagos State, a consignment of 32 kilograms ephedrine, a precursor chemical going to the South East was on December 16, 2024 recovered at the Young Shall Grow Luxury Vehicles Park, Maza-Maza.
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 sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Wajah Girls Government Day Secondary School, Hong, Adamawa State; students and staff of Government Girls Tahfizul Quran Salihawa, Gwarzo, Kano State; and students and staff of Riyadul Quran Islamiyya School, Bagudo, Kebbi State.
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