The agency’s Spokesman, Asuquo Nkereuwem, made the disclosure in a statement issued in Dutse on Wednesday.
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Spokesman of the FCT Command of the agency, Peter Adegbe, disclosed this to the News Agency of Nigeria in Abuja on Friday.
The NDLEA Commander at the airport, Ambrose Umoru, disclosed this while parading the suspects before newsmen in Kano on Thursday.
Speaking at the launch of Campaign Against Drug Abuse and Misuse held in Alimosho Local Government Secretariat on Tuesday, the Commissioner for Youth and Social Development, Agboola Dabiri, said the issue of youth involvement in drugs and drug addiction is a global problem and deserves the attention of all stakeholders.
This is the largest chunk of drugs to be destroyed by the NDLEA since the inception of the counter-narcotic Agency.
Retired Col. Mohammad Abdallah, the Chairman of NDLEA, who supervised the exercise, said that the quantum of drugs being destroyed clearly called for state of emergency over drug situation in the country.
Sheka said APC also won all the 484 councillorship positions with a wide gap in an election participated by 25 political parties.
The commissioner also handed over the substance to the drug agency for identification and advice on possible measures to stop children from such bad habits.
He said the command was in possession of the psychotropic substances that were intercepted from the drug peddlers and barons across the state.
The State Commander of the Agency, Yakubu Kibo, who confirmed the development to newsmen in Yola, said four suspects were arrested in connection to the offence.
Ganduje said after setting the drugs ablaze at the NDLEA premises in Kano, that the exercise was a breakthrough in the administration’s war against sale and consumption of illicit drugs in the state.
The command’s Public Relations Officer, Joy Agumuo, a Deputy Superintendent of Narcotics, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Uyo.
Samuel Egbeola, the Osun Commander of the agency, made this known in Osogbo while briefing newsmen on the agency’s activities in 2017.
The state Commandant, Alhaji Suleiman Jadi, made the disclosure on Monday in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria in Birnin Kebbi.
The state Commandant, Omolade Faboyede, disclosed this in a statement in Ibadan, released by the command Public Relations Officer, Mrs Mutiat Okuwobi on Friday.
In a petition written by an officer of the Agency, Musa Ahmed Yusuf, Abdallah was accused of financial recklessness and making the once vibrant Agency to become comatose.
The NDLEA Commander in the state, Hajiya Maryam Sani, disclosed this on Monday at a news briefing.
The State Commandant of the NDLEA, Samuel Egbeola, made this known in a statement on Saturday.
Abdallah disclosed this on Friday in Kano when he addressed officers and men of the agency.
Elijah Mohammed, the Registrar of the Council, disclosed this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Sunday in Abuja.