NDLEA raids drug spots in four states; tramadol, other substances seized
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized about 203, 879 tablets of various pharmaceutical opioids and illicit substances in raids across Abia, Kaduna, Yobe and Kogi States.
NDLEA said this in a statement by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.
Mr Babafemi said that the agency also foiled fresh bids by drug cartels to export Tramadol, Ecstasy MDMA and Cannabis to Milan, Italy and Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.
He said that five members of a syndicate conducting fake recruitment into security agencies were also arrested in coordinated operations in Zamfara, Kebbi and Bauchi States.
Mr Babafemi said that a female passenger was arrested at the Lagos airport on May 9 while trying to board a Royal Air Moroc flight from Lagos via Casablanca to Milan, Italy, with 1000 tablets of Tramadol 200mg concealed in food items.
He said five days after, a freight agent was also arrested at the SAHCO cargo shed of the airport for attempting to export food items in which were hidden blocks of cannabis weighing 6.65kg and 24 grams of ecstasy drug, MDMA to Dubai in UAE.
“In Abia, three trucks loaded with drugs coming from Lagos and Onitsha, Anambra were intercepted in Aba, Abia. When properly searched in the presence of the owners on Wednesday, May 11, 67,100 tablets/capsules of Tramadol and 12,650 ampules of pentazocine, morphine and dopamine were recovered.
”On the same day, NDLEA operatives in Kaduna arrested a notorious drug dealer, wanted by the Kastina Command of the agency for jumping bail.
“Recovered from him include 45,000 tablets of Diazepam weighing 41.5kg; 50,000 tablets of Exol, weighing 15.6kg; 1,500 tablets of Rohypnol weighing 700 grams and 300 bottles of codeine weighing 41.5kg,” he said.
Mr Babafemi said that 7,029 tablets of Tramadol and cannabis were recovered from a drug dealer when NDLEA raided his hideout in Unguru town in Yobe.
“No less than 19,600 tablets of Tramadol coming from Onitsha, Anambra to Abuja were intercepted and recovered along Okene/Abuja highway on May 11 by NDLEA operatives in Kogi,” Mr Babafemi said.
He added that NDLEA chairman Buba Marwa commended officers of the MMIA, Abia, Kaduna, Yobe, Rivers and Kogi for the arrests and seizures.
(NAN)
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