NDLEA busts “skuchies” factory in Ibadan
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) raided a “skuchies’’ factory operated by a 28-year-old in the Moniya area of Ibadan on January 11.
Skuchies is a chapman drink laced with hard drugs.
NDLEA’s spokesman Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that 76.6kg of Indian hemp, 134g of tramadol, 93g of Rophynol and 50 litres of skuchies were recovered from the factory.
He added that in Ondo State, NDLEA arrested four drug suspects in a hotel off Ado-Ekiti Road, Akure, on January 12 with 524.5kg Indian hemp.
Mr Babafemi also stated that NDLEA operatives arrested a 26-year-old man in Ala Forest, Akure, and recovered 293.5kg of Indian hemp and a Dane gun from him.
He said NDLEA also arrested a 67-year-old man at Otuo, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo, on January 11 with 454 blocks of Indian hemp weighing 311kg loaded in his Lexus salon car.
Mr Babafemi also stated that NDLEA nabbed a 43-year-old man on January 9 at Ayangba in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi.
The NDlEA spokesman said the suspect was in possession of 43 blocks of compressed Indian hemp weighing 22kg and three pinches of methamphetamine.
(NAN)
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