The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a consignment of illicit drug consignment concealed in the engine compartment of an interstate commercial bus Gbongan–Ibadan expressway in Osun State.
No fewer than 5.2kg of Cannabis Sativa and opioids were discovered in the engine compartment of the bus by the NDLEA officers on stop-and-search operation on the highway on Thursday, March 7, 2024.
The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, March 10, said the 35-year-old driver of the bus, Iorliam Sughnen Dominic, who took responsibility for the concealment, was taken into custody for further investigation.
Babafemi added that the anti-narcotic officers, on Saturday, March 9, operatives at Geidam in Yobe State, intercepted a Golf 3 salon car heading to Gagamari in Niger Republic, where the 28-year-old occupant, Mala Tijjani, was to deliver 40 blocks of cannabis weighing 24.5kg to another dealer.
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He noted that 42 cartons containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilograms were also recovered from a 29-year-old driver, Mutari Ya’u, at Katsina Road in Kaduna on Tuesday, March 5.
The NDLEA spokesman disclosed that the officers of the anti-drug agency equally arrested a 35-year-old man Nura Yusuf, with 62kg cannabis at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano State, adding that Abubakar Sani, 40, was also nabbed with 244 bottles of codeine syrup, while 28-year-old Mohammad Alkali was found with 49, 800 pills of tramadol along Kano-Maiduguri Road in Kano on Thursday, March 7.
According to him, the NDLEA operatives in Lagos State on Wednesday, March 6, arrested one Aba Thomas at Igbo Elerin area of the state where 84 litres of skuchies, 1.1 litres of codeine syrup, 4kg Cannabis Sativa, and 800 tablets of tramadol 225mg were seized from him.
Babafemi quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), as charging the anti-narcotic officers nationwide not to rest on their oars as they continue to intensify their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities in the country.
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