Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company brokers have intercepted a cargo of unlawful medication hidden within the engine compartment of a industrial bus.
The company additionally busted two 'skuchies' factories in Osun and Lagos states simply as two grandfathers have been taken into custody for alleged drug trafficking.
The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a press release on Sunday, stated that not lower than 5.2kg of hashish sativa and opioids have been found within the engine compartment of an interstate industrial bus marked VDY 187 XA on Thursday, March 7 . Gbongan-Ibadan Highway, Osun State, by NDLEA operatives throughout cease and search operation on the freeway.
Babafemi stated the bus driver, Iorliam Dominic, 35, who took accountability for the cover-up, was taken into custody for additional investigation.
“The day before today, Wednesday, March 6, a 26-year-old woman, Obasanmi Esther Iyanu, who produces and distributes skuchies, was arrested throughout a raid on her hideout in Osogbo, the Osun State capital. Through the raid, no less than 16.5 liters of the unlawful substance and varied quantities of molly and hashish have been recovered from her,” the company spokesperson stated.
“In the identical vein, NDLEA operatives in Borno State have arrested a 70-year-old grandfather, Mallam Mai Gemu Adam, and 65-year-old Yamama Musa for drug trafficking. They have been arrested on Saturday, March 9, together with Abubakar Ya'u, 24, and Babagana Abubakar Ali, 28, in Maiduguri and Gamboru-Ngala respectively, whereas 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection have been recovered from them.
“The identical day, operatives from Geidam in Yobe State intercepted a Golf 3 saloon automobile en path to Gagamari in Niger Republic the place the occupant, Alhaji Mala Tijjani, 28, carried 40 blocks of hashish weighing 24.5 kg to a different supplier needed to ship, whereas 42 cartons Containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilograms have been recovered on Tuesday, March 5, from a driver, Mutari Ya’u, 29, at Katsina highway, Kaduna,” the assertion stated.
In Kano State, the company stated that 35-year-old Nura Yusuf was arrested with 62kg of hashish in Gadar Tamburawa space, the place Abubakar Sani, 40, was additionally nabbed with 244 bottles of codeine syrup, whereas Mohammad Alkali, 28, was arrested. discovered with 49,800 capsules of tramadol on Kano-Maiduguri Highway, on Thursday, March 7.
Babafemi additional acknowledged that NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Wednesday arrested Aba Thomas within the Igbo Elerin space of the state the place 84 liters of skuchies, 1.1 liters of codeine syrup, 4kg of hashish sativa and 800 tablets of Tramadol 225mg have been seized from him .
“No fewer than eight suspects have been arrested on Friday when NDLEA operatives raided the notorious Karu Slaughterhouse within the FCT, Abuja, recovering 51.3kg of hashish from them. These arrested embrace Buhari Muhammadu, Jamilu Muhammed, Abubakar Wappa, Yahaya Tasiu, Ezekiel Mulanda, Abba Haruna, Habibu Umar and Shamsu Lawali.
“In Plateau State, two suspects: Pam Thomas, 45, and Stephen Nyam, 38, have been on Monday, March 4, arrested with hashish weighing 611.428kg in Zawan, Jos South, whereas in Kogi State, NDLEA operatives raided a industrial J5 bus intercepted subsequent Wednesday, March 6, from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Zaria, Kaduna State, alongside the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja freeway, the place a complete of 8,580 capsules of Tramadol and Exol-5 have been seized from a suspect, Yusuf Abdullahi , 40.
“In Enugu, operatives on Tuesday, March 5, raided some locked retailers on the New Market in Enugu Metropolitan Space the place 371.42kg of hashish and 9.49g of methamphetamine have been recovered,” the assertion stated.
