NDLEA recovers 900,000 opioid pills, 1,347.4kg in 7 states

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has intercepted about 900,000 pills of opioids in the Sabon Gari area of Kano State.

Spokesperson of NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja that two suspects were arrested on April 9.

Babafemi said that another 48-year-old suspect was also apprehended in the Essit Ebum area of Calabar with 39.4kg of cannabis sativa on April 9.

He said that NDLEA operatives on patrol on Owerri-Onitsha Road, Imo, also intercepted a logistics truck with registration number JGB 403XB on Friday.

Babafemi said that 230 blocks of cannabis sativa, weighing 119kg and hidden under household items, were recovered from the suspect after a thorough search.

He said that 252 kilogrammes of cannabis were also seized during a raid at Ijesa-Isu forest in Ekiti on Saturday.

Babafemi said that the suspects were caught loading 40kg of the same substance into the engine compartment of a gas truck at Agho village, Owan-East, in Edo.

“Two motorcycles used in conveying the consignment to where the gas truck heading to the north was parked were also recovered,” he said.

The NDLEA spokesperson further stated that a suspect was arrested on Friday with 79kg of cannabis in the Imeko area of Ogun.

He said that an 18-year-old was equally nabbed with 410kg of the same substance when NDLEA operatives raided Obatedo camp and Itaogbolu forest in Akure North Local Government area of Ondo State.

“With the same zeal, the various commands of the agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign in the past week,” he said.

According to him, some of them include the WADA sensitization lecture for students and staff members of Gboko Polytechnic, Gboko, Benue, and officers and men of the 15 Engineering Field Regiment of the of the Nigerian Army, Topo, Badagry, Lagos.

Others, he said, were meat butchers at Odo Eran abattoir, Osogbo, Osun, and the WADA advocacy visit to Kogi Governor Ahmed Ododo, among others.