The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a large consignment of skunk and opioids in Adamawa and Zamfara, respectively.

In a statement on Sunday, NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi said no fewer than 233,800 pills of tramadol were recovered in Adamawa by operatives of the agency.

Mr Babafemi said the NDLEA operatives in Adamawa conducted three raids, with two suspects arrested in parts of the state.

He said 195,600 pills of the opioid were recovered from an abandoned Toyota Sienna vehicle in Mayo-Belwa on Wednesday, September 17.

The NDLEA spokesman also said a suspect was nabbed in the Jambutu ward of Yola, with 27,900 pills of tramadol discovered in her bedroom, while another suspect was arrested with 10,300 pills of the same substance at Namtari checkpoint.

In Zamfara, 109 bags of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 1,099.4 kg, were seized from a suspect by operatives.

Mr Babafemi said the operation was supported by members of the Community Protection Guards (CPG) along Gummi-Daki Takwas road in Zamfara.

He said they were nabbed while conveying the consignment in a Mitsubishi Canter truck marked LRN 568XB, to a village called Company in Gummi Local Government Area (LGA) on September 20.

Similarly, two suspects were also arrested with 14,000 capsules of tramadol along the Damaturu-Potiskum road in Yobe.

Mr Babafemi said the NDLEA operatives in Taraba also nabbed a suspect with three sacks of skunk that weighed 25.525kg at Garba-Chede in Bali LGA.

According to him, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities, among others, in the past week.

“These include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Sultan Abdulrahman College of Health Technology, Gwadabawa, Sokoto, Sarki Abdul Primary School, Dankama border town, Katsina and Government Secondary School, Gwaram, Jigawa.

“Others are St. Mary Junior Secondary School, North Bank Makurdi, Benue and Ummulkhair Islamiyya, Tudun Wada in Kano.

“The Zone 11 Command of the NDLEA also paid a WADA advocacy visit to the wife of the governor of Enugu, Mrs Nkechinyere Mbah, among others,” Mr Babafemi said.

(NAN)