National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, has revealed its recent breakthroughs in the fight against drug trafficking as operatives arrested several notorious drug dealers and recovered significant quantities of illicit drugs across various states in the federation.
In Rivers State, NDLEA officers arrested 38 years old Mr Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island, Port Harcourt.
Okonkwo, a suspected notorious drug dealer was arrested following credible intelligence as revealed by the agency.
He was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol and codeine syrup, on July 26.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in local mortar and false bottom of a backpack packaged for shipment to China and Italy respectively through a logistics company.
In Anambra State, on July 27, officers on a stop and search operation at DMGS roundabout, Onitsha, intercepted a truck marked XK 131 BDG loaded with 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960kg while the truck driver Chinedu Nwanze, 40, was arrested.
On July 30, operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigations (DOGI) made some seizures including 250grams of cocaine factory fitted into the base of a local mortar packed in a carton for export to China.
Others were 500grams of the same class A drug hidden in the false bottom of a backpack being shipped to Italy, while 331.84 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KUJ 26 DV along Kwale/Ughelli expressway, Delta state on July 26.
In Nasarawa State, on July 28, NDLEA officers arrested a 64-year-old man Joseph Nwaeke with 68kg skunk and 29grams of methamphetamine at Asso Angwan Muazu, Karu area of the state.
In Zamfara, operatives on patrol along Zaria- Gusau highway on July 27, intercepted a suspect, Sani Umar, 27, conveying 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg suspected to be supplies for criminal elements.
With the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
They include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Hausawa Special Primary School, Kano; Royal Crown School, Oluyole, Ibadan; Government Secondary School, Ibi, Taraba; and drivers at Challenge Bus Terminal Park, Ibadan, Oyo state, among others.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Rivers, Anambra, Delta, Nasarawa, and Zamfara commands for the various successful operations, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
