NDLEA seizes over 2,000 IED materials, arrests four suspects in Niger
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested four suspects in connection with the seizure of 2,025 pieces of improvised explosive device (IED) materials.
A statement by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja, stated that the IEDs were intercepted in a Toyota Hummer bus marked AGL 905 XX by NDLEA officers along Agaie-Lapai Road, Niger.
Mr Babafemi said that the duo of Abdulrauf Adeyemi, 46, and Asmiyu Rahim, 45, conveying the IED materials, were arrested on the spot.
He said that follow-up operations led to the arrest of Husaini Abdullahi, 25, at Sokoto main market, Sokoto and Nazifi Abdullahi, 37, at Naibawa Motor Park, Kano, on Friday.
Mr Babafemi quoted the retired NDLEA chairman, Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, as directing that all four suspects and the explosive materials be transferred to the appropriate security agency for further investigation.
In another operation, Muhammad Lawal, 42, was nabbed at Central Market Motor Park, Katsina State, with 1,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection.
Mr Babafemi said that a total of 105kg of cannabis was recovered on Friday, May 17, from a house in Obola community, Owan West LGA, Edo.
He added that a suspect, Gloria Oris, was arrested when NDLEA officers raided the area.
Also, in Kwara state, two suspects, Abdulganiyu Karaman, 55, and Sunday Abel, 37, were arrested on Saturday with 83 kg of cannabis and Tramadol at Boriya, Baruten LGA, and Offa, respectively.
Meanwhile, in Yobe, a consignment of 91.1 kg of opioids and 13 kg of cannabis going to Maiduguri, Borno, was recovered.
Mr Babafemi said that the drugs were hidden in the compartments of a petrol tanker along the Potiskum-Damaturu road.
He, however, added that NDLEA officers arrested the driver, Ismaila Ali.
Mr Babafemi said, ”With the same vigour, the various commands of the agency across the country continued with the War Against Drug Abuse (WWADA) advocacy campaign in the past week.
”Some of them include the WADA sensitisation lecture for students and teachers of GGSSS, Malumfashi and GGSSS, Daudawa, all in Katsina State, among others.”
(NAN)
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