Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the agency disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Benin.
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The Acting Director, Defence Media Operations, Brigadier General Bernard Onyeuko, disclosed this on Thursday.
The command’s Controller, Suleiman Umar, handed over the drugs to Kano State Coordinator of NAFDAC, Shaba Muhammad.
Chairman of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, who disclosed this to newsmen in Lagos, said that the seizure of Captagon, with one suspect in the net, was the first in Sub-Sahara Africa.
The agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, told the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on Monday in Abuja that the agency also arrested 8,634 suspected drug traffickers during the period, made up of 6,461 males and 547 females.
The NDLEA spokesperson, Mr Femi Babafemi, said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
A lecturer at the Bayero University, Kano (BUK), Dr. Abubakar Danlami Alhassan, made the disclosure at a two-day ‘Media Workshop on Humanitarian Reporting,’ in Yola, Adamawa State.
This is contained in a statement issued by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi on Tuesday in Abuja.
The state commander of the agency, Peter Onche-Odaudu, told newsmen in Birnin Kebbi on Thursday that the suspects were arrested between January and July 7.
Buba Wakawa, State Commander of the agency, said this in Benin on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
Following intelligence-based raids and follow up operations on their locations on May 2, 2021, over 192kg of cocaine and other psychoactive substances were recovered from the suspects, while the octogenarian, her granddaughter and two other ladies: Tessy Matthew and Blessing Adesida, were arrested.
The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Monday in Abuja, said additional 48.726 kilogrammes of assorted psychotropic substances were recovered.
Apolos had been on the wanted list of the Abia state Command of the NDLEA since February following the arrest of one Chima Ukeleonu, the suspect behind the video that went viral in January 2021, showing a young man hawking illicit drugs on the street. As a result, 38-year-old Apolos was put on wanted list.
The agency also intercepted 2,800 bottles of diverse cough syrups after it thwarted attempts to smuggle them into the Federal Capital Territory.
Marwa made the disclosure on Thursday in Ado-Ekiti at a colloquium tagged: “Walk Away from Drugs’’, a programme organised by Ekiti Ministry of Justice.
The state Commander, Rachael Shelleng, who announced this in a statement on Sunday, said that officers of the agency stormed the cannabis warehouse in the early hours of Feb. 20.
Olife’s arrest in Lagos came just as operatives of the anti-drug agency in Adamawa State nabbed an illicit drug dealer, Rabiu Imam, on Friday with Tramadol tablet 225mg weighing 45.4kg.
The NDLEA Commander in the FCT, Lawan Hamisu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
Isa Adoro, the State Commandant of NDLEA in Ebonyi, said this on Friday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria.
The Lagos State Commander of the NDLEA, Ralph Igwenagu, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Lagos on Wednesday.