The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kano has arrested a 45-year-old suspect named Michael Ogundele, who was found in possession of a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along the Zaria-Kano road.
This information was disclosed by Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA, during a statement at the agency’s headquarters in Abuja.
According to Babafemi, the arrest followed credible intelligence. Welding tools were subsequently used to cut open the large cylinder, revealing 50,000 pills of tramadol (225 mg) concealed inside.
Babafemi also reported that another suspect, 40-year-old Sunday Ogar, was apprehended on Wednesday, March 19, in the Gunduwawa area of Kano with 27 kg of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
A female suspect, Khadijah Abdullahi, also 40 years old, was arrested on Tuesday, March 18, in the Lungun Bulala Yalwa area with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup.
The statement also added that “In Lagos, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin just as 100.8kg of same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe area of Mushin while Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with 4.5kg skunk; 600grams of tramadol 225mg and 30litres of codeine syrup on Tuesday 18th March,” he maintained.
He further stated that another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested same day in Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
While he empharsised that across the country, NDLEA Commands and formations continued to intensify their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitization engagements in schools, markets, motor parts, work places and worship centres in the past week.
These include: WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa, Niger state; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra state; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti, Ekiti state; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto state; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada, Adamawa state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of MAKIA, Lagos, and Kano Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, its Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), noted with satisfaction the balance in drug supply and demand reduction efforts of all the formations nationwide, even as he charged them not to relent.
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