National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested 43 drug dealers and seized 137.55kgs of illicit drugs.
Gatekeepers News reports that operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have launched fresh raids in Nasarawa, Benue, and Ondo states and nabbed no fewer than 43 dealers and consumers of illicit substances.
NDLEA’s Spokesman, Femi Babafemi made this known in a statement he signed on Tuesday, August 10, 2021.
Babafemi in the statement said 137.55 kilograms of assorted drugs were recovered during the ‘offensive action’ in Nasarawa state.
According to him, “NDLEA operatives backed by a detachment of soldiers from 177 battalion of the Nigerian Army, Keffi, raided notorious drug joints located in Kara Masaka, Ruwa Ruwa Uke, Abattoir at the border with FCT, Filing Bala, Masaka U-Turn, and others for two consecutive days; 5th and 6th August 2021.
“During the raids, at least 41 suspects were arrested and assorted drugs such as cocaine, cannabis Sativa, cough syrup with codeine, Rohypnol, and tramadol with a total weight of 65.250kg recovered from them.”
Also, cannabis plants planted by the drug dealers in the adjoining bushes were destroyed while all the stalls in the drug markets were dismantled and set ablaze.
In the same vein, the Ondo state command of the Narcotics Agency in the early hours of Monday, August 9, 2021, raided the Odopetu area of Akure in Akure South local government area of the state capital, where 44-year-old Folake Ademola was arrested while her husband escaped arrest.
According to the statement, drugs “recovered from their home include 65.400kg of cannabis Sativa; skunk – 500grams; loud- 16grams; Colorado- 34grams, bringing the total of drugs seized from them to 65.950 kilograms.’
In a related development, a 34-year-old Iornum Emmanuel was arrested at the NDLEA Aliade checkpoint on Sunday, August 8, 2021, in Benue state.
Different quantities of assorted illicit drugs, which include; tramadol -500grams; diazepam- 1.5kg, and exol 5- 7.9kg were recovered from Emmanuel.
The Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa has commended the commanders, officers, and men of the three commands (Nasarawa, Ondo, and Benue state) for their commitment to the goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of drug abuse and trafficking.
Marwa charged them and their colleagues in other commands to continue on the offensive until the last drug cartel in the country is dismantled.
