The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two parcels of 2.82 kilogrammes of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis imported from the United States, with Lagos as its destination.

NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) intercepted the consignments at a courier firm in Lagos on Thursday, February 6.

Mr Babafemi said that in another interdiction operation the same day, but at a different logistics company in Lagos, anti-narcotics officers intercepted 80 ampoules of pentazocine injection 225 grammes concealed in cartons and heading for Canada.

He said NDLEA operatives in Kano also, on Monday, February 3, arrested two men, both 23 years old, at Gadar Tamburawa on Zaria road.

Mr Babafemi said 15,396 pills of tramadol, which were concealed inside a gas cylinder, were recovered from the two suspects.

“In another operation same day, operatives nabbed a female suspect, 35, with 27 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 15kg, at the Sabon Gari area of Kano.

“A consignment of 12,800 pills of tramadol 250mg going to Shuwarin in Jigawa State was also intercepted by NDLEA officers on patrol on the Kabba-Obajana highway in Kogi state on Saturday, February 8, with a suspect, aged 33, arrested.

“Similarly, no fewer than 65 parcels of Colorado, a strong synthetic strain of cannabis, with a total weight of 1.600kg, was recovered.

“The consignment was heading to Jigawa State, and a suspect, 32, was arrested on the same day at the checkpoint,“ he said.

He said that with the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities in the past week.

Mr Babafemi said these include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Saint Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; Taangayar Malam Abubakar Bichi, an Almajiri school, Bichi, Kano.

Others are Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, Cross River; College of Nursing and Science, Birnin Kebbi; and Meiran Community Junior Secondary School, Abule Egba, Lagos State.

(NAN)