NDLEA makes a gale of arrests, seizes large psychoactive drugs in Adamawa, other states
Rewrite by Ahmad Ayuba
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has in the past weeks, made a gale of arrests of illicit drug merchants and seized huge quantities of assorted psychoactive drugs in Adamawa and other states in the country.
In a statement in Abuja, the director Media and Advocacy of the Agency, Mr Femi Babafemi stated that NDLEA seized about 1,250,000 pills of psychoactive drugs weighing 450kg in Adamawa state on Saturday, when its operatives arrested a car at Girei while on its way to Mubi.
Babafemi stated that NDLEA also seized several cartons of Codeine Syrup and Tramadol hidden in auto spare parts in a bus on Ngurore-Yola Road and that the bus was travelling from Onitsha, Anambra.
He added that the intended recipient of the drugs was arrested at Jambutu Motor Park in Adamawa in a follow-up operation.
The NDLEA spokesman also revealed that three drugs suspects aged between 40 years and 68 years were arrested on Saturday at Amarata, Yenagoa in Bayelsa state in connection with 69 compressed blocks of Indian hemp.
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The hemp, weighing 36kg was concealed in a false compartment of a Toyota Picnic car in which the suspects were travelling, he stated.
Within the period, he said NDLEA operatives arrested a 41-year-old man at Amajeke, Owerri while he was taking delivery of 49 bottles of codeine syrup.
In Ondo State, Babafemi said its officers arrested a 50-year-old man at Oloro Camp, Ogbese, in Akure North Local Government Area where they destroyed 25,000kg of Indian hemp on a 10-hectare farmland just as, operatives of the Agency also destroyed 89.5kg of Indian hemp in the area.
He stated that the NDLEA also arrested three other suspects aged between 22 years and 32 years in other parts of Ondo State in connection with different drugs seizures weighing 77kg in the last one week.
