Photographs and a video have emerged from the successful nationwide operations of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the last one week.
The achievements were revealed by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday.
According to the statement, along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway, NDLEA officers arrested four suspects: Abdullahi Umar, Tijjani Samaila, Lucky Obotte, and Abubakar Haruna, who were heading to Maiduguri in Borno State, Kano, and Abuja in commuter vehicles with over 38,000 pills of tramadol 225mg, 250mg and 100mg concealed in audio speakers and cloths.
In Lagos State, operatives of a special operations unit of the Agency on January 14 raided the hideout of 59-year-old Nwokedi Emeka Jonas in Ojodu-Berger area of the state, where they recovered 10 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 4.9kg as well as different paper bags he uses in dispensing the psychoactive substance in retail quantities.
Printed on them included the street names and codes such as: Dead man, Gelato top shelf smoke, Topshelf, and Gelato cake.
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In other operations in Lagos, operatives of the state Command of the Agency on January 15 raided a house in Igando New Town area of Alimosho where they arrested three suspects: Isaac Vincent, 32; Ebube Ikechi, 25; and Christopher Usifoh, 43, from whom 1,610kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, and 6kg pills of tramadol were recovered.
Also recovered from the house were a delivery van and three other vehicles used for distributing the illicit drugs.
Two suspects: Olashile Okoya and Mohammed Ibrahim, were arrested on January 18 when NDLEA officers raided their home at 5A, Addison Palmer, Cadogan Estate, Castle Rock Avenue, Osapa, Lekki, Lagos State, where 28 kilograms of Canadian Loud were recovered following credible intelligence.
Not less than 67kg skunk was seized from Saheed Sulaiman on January 16 when NDLEA operatives raided his Edumare Street, Lagos Island hideout, while various quantities of assorted illicit substances were recovered from Adamu Abdullahi on January 14 when his Jerry Irabi Estate, Lekki hideout was raided by NDLEA officers.
The drugs recovered included 3.7 litres of codeine syrup; 10,000 pills of tramadol; 1,670 tablets of rohypnol; 6.5kg cannabis; 3,100 tablets of diazepam; 10,090 tablets of Molly; 5,500 tabs of Exol-5; 1.2kg crisps of wrapped methamphetamine; and a monetary exhibit of N623,650.
In Kano, two suspects: Usama Adamu, 25, and Isah Ibrahim, 29, were on January 17 arrested at Dawanau, Dawakin Tofa LGA, where a total of 7.6kg skunk, 78 tubes of rubber solution and 356 bottles of Suck and Die, a new psychoactive substance, were recovered from them.
In another raid in Kano, Usman Isa, 29, was nabbed along Zaria Road with 114 blocks of skunk weighing 49.8kg.
Three suspects: Lawali Isiaka, Umoru Isiaka, and Mohammed Kabiru, were on January 15 arrested by NDLEA operatives with 390 tablets of Molly and 65.5kg of cannabis at Bode Saadu in Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State, while Samuel Ogbu, 24, was nabbed with 25,000 pills of tramadol by operatives along Wukari-Zaki Ibiam Road in Wukari LGA of Taraba State.
In a series of raids in Abuja, a suspect, Rufa’i Hashimu, 27, was arrested at Gwarimpa village area of the Federal Capital Territory with 118 bottles of codeine-based syrup, while 13 others were nabbed in other locations such as: Area1 IDP camp, Gishiri, Zuba, Dei -Dei, AYA, Lagos Street Garki, Karu, and Lugbe.
Recovered from them were different quantities of tramadol, diazepam, and methamphetamine.
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 included WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of NUD Basic Primary School, Orile-Igbon, Oyo State; Corpus Christi College, Ilawe Ekiti, Ekiti State; Holy Family International Schools, Calabar, Cross Rivers State; Kudam Islamic School, Osogbo, Osun State; Business Apprenticeship Training Centre, Kankia, Katsina State; while the Abia State Command of the NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to Governor Alex Otti.