Tramadol, opioid and cannabis sativa dominated the list of illicit drugs seized by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the last one week across Nigeria.
This was observed in a statement by the Director of Advocacy and Media of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
According to Babafemi in the statement on Sunday, in Kano State, no fewer than five 5,653,000 pills of tramadol 250mg and exol-5 were seized from three suspects.
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While Nura Abdullahi, 38, and Tahir Muhammad Mukhtar, 42, were arrested at Bacharawa area of Kano with 5,404,000 pills of tramadol 250mg on January 14, 2024, Yusuf Umar, 50, was nabbed at Gadar Tamburawa area of the state the previous day with 249,000 tablets of exol-5 by NDLEA operatives.
In Lagos, two suspects: Ali Abubakar and Murtala Sani, were arrested at Ojodu Berger area on January 16 with 110kg of cannabis sativa, while 69kg of the same substance was recovered from the hideout of a fleeing suspect in Akerele, Surulere, the same day.
Not less than 2,800 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup were recovered by NDLEA officers on January 20 during a raid operation at Aleita FCT, Abuja.
The suspected owner of the consignment, Jideofor Sochima, is still at large.
While a total of 100,510 pills of opioids were seized from a suspect, Ike Emmanuel, 35, on January 18 at Dan-Anacha village, Taraba State, NDLEA operatives in Abia State arrested 60-year-old Joseph Isiguzoro as well as Emmanuel Eugene and Malachi Ndu in parts of Abia State with 34,200 pills of opioids.
Isiguzoro was equally found with monetary exhibit totalling N2,885,045.
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