NDLEA intercepts bandits’ drug suppliers, nabs kingpins, destroys 24,000kg skunk

By Kingsley Omonobi

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs successful Borno, Yobe, Lagos, Edo, Kaduna, and different states, foiling attempts to proviso narcotics to terrorists and bandits portion besides dismantling high-level trafficking networks.

In Borno, NDLEA operatives arrested Baba Kaka Ibrahim, 26, astatine Njimtilo colony connected Saturday, September 27, portion driving a Mercedes Benz GLK loaded with 39,380 tramadol and exol-5 pills hidden successful its motor compartment. On the aforesaid time successful Yobe, officers intercepted Halima Adamu on the Damaturu–Maiduguri roadworthy with 39 parcels of Colorado, a synthetic cannabis strain, concealed successful her luggage. A follow-up raid led to the apprehension of her accomplice, Habiba Muhammad, successful Maiduguri.

Also connected September 27, 2 men, Aliyu Sani, 27, and Yahaya Tata, 26, were arrested on the Zaria–Kano roadworthy with 30,030 tramadol pills.

In Lagos, NDLEA’s Special Operations Unit nabbed 2 notorious cause kingpins — Victor Nwosa, 64, and Felix Chika Obiegbu, 49 — aft weeks of surveillance. Consignments of heroin, cocaine, and methamphetamine prepared for export were seized from their residences successful Okota and Surulere.

Elsewhere, aggregate arrests and seizures were recorded: Three men were caught astatine Swali Jetty, Yenagoa, Bayelsa, with 12kg of cannabis and 50 cartridges. Ex-convict Femi Owoeye (aka “Do Good”) was arrested successful Ekiti with 32kg of skunk and tramadol. In Kaduna, 404 blocks of cannabis weighing 262.6kg were recovered from a Honda Pilot. In Abuja, 2.1kg of Colorado was seized on the Abaji–Gwagwalada road. And In Gombe, follow-up quality led to the apprehension of a meth receiver.

NDLEA officers besides destroyed implicit 24,146kg of cannabis successful Edo forests, uprooting plantations spanning much than 9 hectares successful Esan West and Igueben LGAs, portion besides intercepting a motortruck laden with 1,025kg of skunk hidden successful charcoal sacks successful Etsako West.

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd), praised the operations crossed the country, stressing that the seizures demonstrated the agency’s resoluteness to safeguard Nigeria from illicit substances fueling insecurity.

“The occurrence of these operations underscores our committedness to protecting youths, disrupting transgression networks, and strengthening nationalist security,” Marwa said.

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