NLDEA intercepts UK-bound illicit drugs, arrests suspects
Abdullateef Fowewe
The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted a shipment of illicit drugs bound for the United Kingdom and have arrested two suspects identified as Adakole Sunday and Austin Balogun.
The suspects upon arrest on Tuesday, January 21 had six parcels of the psychoactive substance with a gross weight of 3.50 kilograms concealed inside the duvet.
Dailyeconomy obtained this in a remark on Sunday, by the NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi.
Babafemi noted that the operatives of the NDLEA during a raid at their hideout in Igbo Olumo, Ikorodu area of Lagos arrested an additional duo of Joseph Oluwasegun Adewale and Biodun Adelakun discovering seven litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant, cannabis opioids alongside other exhibits.
He said, “Another raid in Lagos on Sunday 19th January led to the seizure of 47kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, and 25.46kg Nitrous Oxide popularly known as laughing gas at the notorious Akala area of Mushin.
“In Ekiti, a 26-year-old suspect Adepoju Taiwo was arrested by NDLEA officers on Thursday 23rd January with 1.950kg Canadian Loud at Iworoko road, Ilokun, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while Auwal Sani was nabbed by operatives on Monday 20th January at Bode Saadu in Moro local government area of Kwara State. A total of 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 36.56kg were recovered from him.
“A Nigerien, Abubakar Lami, 45, with two others: Abba Sani, 35, and Auwal Aliyu, 32, were arrested by NDLEA operatives at Gadar Tamburawa, Kano, while 13.1kg skunk and 125 litres of ‘suck and die’, a new psychoactive substance were recovered from them. In Gefen Kasa, Dawakin Kudu council area of Kano state, a cannabis plantation was located and destroyed by a team of NDLEA officers who arrested a suspect, Sabo Ali Muhammad, 45, linked to the farm.”
However, while commending the officers and men of the agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, the NDLEA’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) also applauded their compatriots in all the commands across the country for intensifying the WADA social advocacy lectures and sensitisation activities in every part of their areas of responsibility.
Babafemi in the statement affirmed that across the country, NDLEA Commands continued their War Against Drug Abuse, (WADA), sensitisation lectures and advocacy visits to worship centres, schools, workplaces, palaces of traditional rulers and communities all through the past week, instancing the WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Army Children Secondary School, Oyo, Oyo state; Government Day Secondary School, Gwadangwaji, Kebbi state; Government Day Secondary School, Suleja, Niger state; St. Dominic Comprehensive College, Oron, Akwa Ibom state; District Junior College, Agege, Lagos; and residents of Pompomari community, Damaturu, Yobe stat, among others.
