He said that Mr Abubakar was arrested with 6,740 pills of tramadol and 20,000 tablets of diazepam.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said the suspected drug traffickers had been declared wanted by the agency for over two months.
In Kogi, NDLEA officers, on a stop-and-search operation along the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on March 1, intercepted a commercial bus.
The consignment was intercepted at the Tincan seaport in Lagos, according to NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi.
Mr Marwa said, “With the agency’s staff strength expected to rise to 15,000 by the end of the year, the next development is to deploy in the LGAs.”
The agency’s sniffer dogs were deployed to locate the area the illicit drugs were hidden in the cargo, and they immediately identified the cartons packed in the deep freezers.
Mr Babafemi said that following credible intelligence, operatives monitored the movement for three weeks and upon arrival, 130 bags of cannabis were seized.
