NDLEA intercepts large consignments of skunk, opioid in Zamfara, Adamawa

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

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

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

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

He also said a suspect was nabbed in 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.

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

He said that 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 Sept. 20.

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

Babafemi said that 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, in 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 wife of the governor of Enugu, Mrs. Nkechinyere Mbah, among others.