The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted multiple large consignments of illicit drugs and arrested over 15 suspects in coordinated raids across Kaduna, Edo, Kwara, Ogun, Taraba, Ondo, and Bauchi States.
The agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
According to Babafemi, NDLEA operatives on October 26 intercepted a consignment of 84,710 capsules of tramadol along the Abuja–Jos highway in Kaduna State, en route from Onitsha to Bauchi. A follow-up operation in Bauchi led to the arrest of the intended recipient.
Two days later, on October 28, operatives arrested another suspect at the Abuja–Kaduna tollgate with 32,946 bottles of Akuskura, a new psychoactive substance, transported from Lagos.
In Ogun State, three suspects were tracked from the Benin Republic and arrested in Abeokuta on November 1 with 1,779kg of skunk. In another operation, a 30-year-old suspect was nabbed with 131.5kg of skunk in the Igabi area of Kaduna.
Similarly, in Bauchi State, operatives recovered 596.4kg of skunk from a suspect at Nasaru, Ningi Local Government Area on October 29, while in Kwara State, 532,600 pills of tramadol and exol-5 were seized from three suspects in a truck at Oko-Olowo, Ilorin.
In Edo State, NDLEA officers intercepted two Toyota Sienna buses along Okhokho–Isi community, Uhunmwode LGA, conveying 1,455kg of skunk.
Operations in Ondo State yielded even larger seizures — 2,829kg of skunk from two locations in Ayede, Ogbese, and 737kg from another suspect at Adegbola Junction, Akure.
In Lagos State, NDLEA officers arrested a suspect at Ibereko, Badagry, with 76.5 litres of “skuchies”, a mixture of blackcurrant, skunk, and opioids.
In Taraba State, two suspects conveying 30,370 pills of tramadol and 177 grams of methamphetamine from Onitsha to Yola were arrested in Wukari on October 30.
Meanwhile, NDLEA commands across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation campaigns in schools, workplaces, religious centres, and communities.
NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd.), commended the officers for their professionalism and resilience, vowing that the agency would continue to dismantle drug networks nationwide.
“We will continue to deny traffickers the benefits of their criminal trade by ensuring the forfeiture of all traceable assets to the Federal Government,” Marwa said.
