The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, on Sunday, mentioned its operatives intercepted a consignment of illicit drug consignment hid within the engine compartment of an interstate industrial bus w
The company mentioned it additionally arrested and took into custody two grandfathers over alleged drug trafficking.
The NDLEA famous that no fewer than 5.2kg of hashish sativa and opioids have been found within the engine compartment of the interstate industrial bus marked VDY 187 XA on Thursday, seventh March 2024, alongside Gbongan – Ibadan street, Osun State by its officers on a cease and search operation on the freeway.
The anti-narcotic company mentioned the bus driver, Iorliam Sughnen Dominic, 35, who took accountability for the concealment was taken into custody for additional investigation.
Particulars of the drug burst have been disclosed in an announcement by Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy.
Babafemi mentioned the day gone by Wednesday sixth March, a 26-year-old woman, Obasanmi Esther Iyanu, who produces and distributes skuchies was arrested throughout a raid on her hideout in Osogbo, the Osun State capital.
He disclosed that a minimum of 16.5 litres of the illicit substance and completely different portions of molly and hashish have been recovered from her through the raid.
Babafemi additional introduced that NDLEA operatives in Borno State arrested a 70-year-old grandfather, Mallam Mai Gemu Adam and 65-year-old Yamama Musa for drug trafficking.
Based on the spokesman, they have been arrested on Saturday ninth March together with 24-year-old Abubakar Ya’u and Babagana Abubakar Ali, 28, in Maiduguri and Gamboru-Ngala respectively whereas 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection have been recovered from them.
“Similar day, operatives at Geidam in Yobe State intercepted a Golf 3 saloon automotive heading to Gagamari in Niger republic, the place the occupant, Alhaji Mala Tijjani, 28, was to ship 40 blocks of hashish weighing 24.5kg to a different supplier, whereas 42 cartons containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilograms have been recovered from a driver, Mutari Ya’u, 29, at Katsina street, Kaduna on Tuesday fifth March.
“In Kano State, Nura Yusuf, 35, was arrested with 62kg hashish at Gadar Tamburawa space, the place Abubakar Sani, 40, was additionally nabbed with 244 bottles of codeine syrup, whereas Mohammad Alkali, 28, was discovered with 49, 800 capsules of tramadol alongside Kano-Maiduguri street, on Thursday seventh March. That is simply as NDLEA operatives in Lagos State on Wednesday sixth March arrested Aba Thomas on the Igbo Elerin space of the state the place 84 litres of scrunchies, 1.1 litres of codeine syrup,4kg hashish sativa, and 800 tablets of tramadol 225mg have been seized from him.
“No fewer than eight suspects have been arrested on Friday eighth March when NDLEA officers raided the infamous Karu abattoir drug joint within the FCT, Abuja with 51.3kg hashish recovered from them. These arrested embrace: Buhari Muhammadu; Jamilu Muhammed; Abubakar Wappa; Yahaya Tasiu; Ezekiel Mulanda; Abba Haruna; Habibu Umar and Shamsu Lawali,” Babafemi added.
Equally, NDLEA disclosed that it arrested two suspects: Pam Thomas, 45, and Stephen Nyam, 38, with hashish weighing 611.428kg at Zawan, Jos South, whereas in Kogi state, the operatives intercepted a industrial J5 bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra state to Zaria, Kaduna state on Wednesday alongside Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway.
Based on the assertion, a complete of 8,580 capsules of tramadol and exol-5 have been seized from a suspect, Yusuf Abdullahi, 40.
In the meantime, the operatives on Tuesday, raided some lock-up outlets on the new market within the Enugu metropolitan space, including that 371.42kg hashish and 9.49grams of methamphetamine have been recovered.
Reacting to the event, the Chairman/Chief Government Officer of NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa, rtd, recommended the efforts of the Borno, Kogi, Kaduna, Kano, Osun, Lagos, Plateau, Enugu, Yobe and FCT Instructions of the Company for jobs properly carried out prior to now week.
Marwa charged them and their compatriots in different formations nationwide to not relaxation on their oars as they proceed to accentuate their drug provide discount and drug demand discount actions.
