Crimes

NDLEA raids drug party in Abuja, arrests 60

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested no fewer than 60 suspects after disrupting a drug party at Sun City Estate in Abuja.

The suspects comprising 25 males and 35 females were arrested after the NDLEA officers disrupted the drug party dubbed “Go hard or Go Home. Pick Your Poison” at an apartment in the estate on Friday night.

The spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, June 30, 2024, disclosed that the raid followed credible intelligence about the drug party organised by one Stanley Ikechukwu who was arrested at the venue.

Babafemi said six of the suspects – Victoria Adoga, Hamza Yari, Joanne Essein Joy, Socchima Valentine, Jago Imole, and Charles Indobuibisi – were arrested with different quantities of ecstasy and cannabis.

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He noted that the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has directed that 20 of the suspects who tested negative for drugs be released unconditionally, while 34 others who tested positive for illicit drugs were to be released on bail and will report at the FCT Command of the agency on Monday, July 1, to begin treatment and counselling.

He added that 40.32kg of Loud, an imported strong strain of cannabis, was on Friday, June 28, recovered from a black Toyota Tacoma truck along the Lekki-Ikoyi Road in Lagos State when the driver jumped off the vehicle after noticing that NDLEA operatives were on his trail.

Babafemi noted that the NDLEA commands across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among others in the past week.

The NDLEA spokesman listed the sensitisation activities to include WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of First Technical University, Ibadan, Oyo State; students of Government Day Secondary School, Yola, Adamawa State; students and teachers of Ezeike High School, Nibo, Anambra State; members of Mount Zion Anglican Church, Igoba, Akure, Ondo State; and WADA advocacy visit to the palace of Oba of Yoruba in Kano, Dr. Murtala Alimi Otitese.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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