Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 33-year-old notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits , Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli) operating in the Shiroro local government area of Niger State.
According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Gamboli was arrested at his hideout three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local government
He said the agency received intelligence about Gamboli’s activities ,thereafter raided his house at Anguwan Makera, Kuta, where they recovered 471.8 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis on November 20th, 2025.
‘’Though he escaped arrest during the raid and has since been in hiding, the manhunt for him eventually paid off on Thursday 11th December when NDLEA officers acting on processed intelligence traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta. Intelligence reports had indicated that Gamboli is a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro local government area.”
Babafemi said NDLEA officers in Abia on Thursday 11th December raided a clandestine codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma local government area of the state. During the operation, operatives recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.
Babafemi added that no fewer than 907 pills of tramadol, tapentadol, cocodamol, amitriptyline and bromazepam concealed in containers of local black soap, and designer wears, in six different consignments going to the US, Canada and Sweden were intercepted and seized by NDLEA operatives at two major courier companies in Lagos between Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th December 2025.
