NDLEA raids Lagos night club over drug party, arrests over 100 suspects
NDLEA raids Lagos night club over drug party, arrests over 100 suspects
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided a night club over a drug party in Lagos.
A statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja said that over 100 suspects were arrested, including the owner of the club.
Babafemi said that the club located at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island was busted on Sunday , Oct. 26.
Babafemi said that over 100 suspects including the owner of the club, were arrested and taken into custody for screening.
“Cartons of illicit substances including Loud, and laughing gas were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
“The raid followed intelligence about the drug party.
“NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11pm on Saturday, Oct. 25 however disrupted the gathering at 3am on Sunday Oct. 26 based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs),” he said.
Also, in Taraba, suspected drug traffickers were on Tuesday, Oct. 21 arrested with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 at Dan-Anacha checkpoint.
Babafemi said that they were nabbed while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra state to Mubi, Adamawa.
Similarly, NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway, Kogi seized 162.200kg skunk, a strain of cannabis from a truck on Friday, Oct. 24.
Operatives in Nasarawa state on Wednesday, Oct. 22 recovered 128kg of the same psychoactive substance from a suspect in Keffi area of the state.
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In another development, Babafemi said that a mother of two who was a major distributor of Canadian and California Loud, both strong strains of cannabis in Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and VGC areas of Lagos was arrested.
Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives on Friday Oct. 17 nabbed the suspect during a raid at her Lekki home where 500 grams of the illicit substances were recovered.
Also, Babafemi said that NDLEA officers on Thursday, Oct. 23 raided the home of a suspect at Solomade estate in Ikorodu area of Lagos.
This, he said was where 275 litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant drink, cannabis and opioids, were recovered.
