NDLEA recovers 3,476kg Colorado, 645,906 pills of opioids in Nasarawa
NDLEA recovers 3,476kg Colorado, 645,906 pills of opioids in Nasarawa
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has raided an apartment in Ikoyi, Lagos, where it recovered 32 pouches of Canadian Loud, a strain of Cannabis.
A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja stated that the NDELA operatives arrested a suspect with drugs weighing 15.63kg was recovered.
He said that in another operation in Nasarawa, operatives on Aug. 9 recovered a large consignment of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 3,093kg.
Babafemi said that the drugs were recovered from three suspects at New Karu.
According to him another suspect was nabbed at Geza area of Kumbotso Kano State with 639 blocks of skunk weighing 359kg on Friday, Aug. 8.
Babafemi said one suspect was taken into custody on Aug. 6 after seizing 9kg of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis from him along Zaria-Kano road, Kano.
In another interdiction operation in Kano, 20,000 pills of tramadol and 200 ampoules of diazepam injection were recovered from a suspect at Gadar Tamburawa along Zaria-Kano road on Friday, Aug. 8.
He said that at Tudun Wadan Pantami in Gombe town on Aug. 8, personnel recovered 550, 266 pills of opioids mainly tramadol with a suspect arrested.
“The following day Saturday, Aug. 9, another suspect Ibrahim Adamu, 23, was arrested by NDLEA officers along Potiskum road, Bajoga with 50,000 capsules of tramadol.
“Similarly, in Edo state, a white Toyota Hiace bus marked YAB 5522 K coming from Onitsha Anambra and heading to Isanlu in Kogi was Wednesday, August 6 intercepted at Ewu junction, Edo.”
Babafemi said that the NDLEA operatives who after a search recovered 23, 940 capsules of tramadol, 1,100 tablets of the same opioid and 400 ampoules of pentazocine injection with a suspect that was arrested.
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In like manner, Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
“These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Mind City College, Saki, Oyo; Gwagwarwa Primary School, Nasarawa LGA, Kano; officers of the Nigerian Army 241 Recce Model Battalion, Nguru, Yobe, members of Engine Grinders Association, Gboko, Benue.
“Also, the Ekiti state command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to the Nigerian Correctional Service (NCoS) in Ado Ekiti.
“Anambra state command of the Agency paid a similar WADA advocacy visit to the Speaker of the State House of Assembly,” he said.
