.NDLEA recovers 546,700 pills, intercepts 14.5 tons of Ghanaian Loud
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a man with speaking and hearing impairment for dealing in illicit substances.
The arrest took place at the Samaru area of Zaria, in Kaduna State.
At the time of his arrest, 150gm of cannabis were recovered as he sold the psychoactive substance.
Confirming the development yesterday, spokesperson for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said another suspect, Ibrahim Sani, 56, was also arrested in possession of 51kg of the same substance at the Tirkaniya area of the state.
Also, operatives on Wednesday, January 31, arrested one Emmanuel Paul with 43.5kg cannabis concealed in used shoes, loaded in a trailer coming from Ogbese, Ondo State, and meant to be delivered at the Gwagwalada area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT).
In Katsina State, NDLEA officers on patrol along Dutsinma-Katsina road, on Friday, February 2, apprehended a suspect, Murtala Isah, 35, with a total of 37,600 pills of tramadol and other opioids.
Meanwhile, the agency has intercepted large consignments of Ghanaian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis sativa, smuggled into Lagos from Ghana, loaded in two trucks and a J5 bus with a total weight of 14,524.8kg.
The three vehicles conveying jumbo bags of the psychoactive substance were trailed and intercepted at the Ojuelegba area of Lagos in the early hours of Sunday, January 28.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives on routine patrol around a warehouse sealed at Church Street, Idumota, Lagos over an ongoing investigation on Thursday, February 1, arrested three suspects: Joseph Joshua; Muhammed Adamu and Balarabe Musa who burgled the store and loaded 546,700 pills of tramadol and other opioids into a waiting yellow bus marked BDG 447 XD and an unregistered Suzuki minibus.
In Kogi State, operatives, on Wednesday, January 1, destroyed 833.32kg of cannabis sativa on a two-acre farmland at Iluke community, Kabba-Bunu Local Council while the owner, Samuel Atonila, 49, was arrested.
On the same day, operatives in Nasarawa arrested three suspects: Muhammed Musa, Bilyaminu Musa and Sadiya Ya’u with the same psychoactive substance weighing 24.4kg at Uke, Karu local council of the state, while no less than 258kg of the same substance were recovered from a bush store around Ikare bypass, Owo, Ondo state.
Also, NDLEA operatives have in the last three years seized several shipments of the same psychoactive substance worth billions of naira linked to Temo.
The wanted drug lord has since gone into hiding while the agency continues a manhunt for him.
In the same vein, NDLEA Commands across the 36 states and the FCT continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, workplaces and others in the past week.
Meanwhile, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (rtd) has commended arrests and seizures of the past week by officers and men of the Lagos, Kaduna, Ondo, Katsina, Nasarawa, Kogi and FCT Commands.
He charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their efforts on both drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction simultaneously.
