Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has arrested at least three persons in Kaduna on Friday 18th March with 18,380 tablets of Tramadol, and 12,500 tablets of Diazepam and Exol-5 tablets.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday identified the three as Tony Samson, Paul Adamu, and Reuben Waziri.
According to him, in other operations across the country, different quantities of various drugs were recovered from suspects.
He said in Anambra on Thursday 17th March,Operatives of the agency intercepted a bus with reg. No AGU 460 ZW, at Obosi bridge heading to Aba, Abia state from Onitsha.
Upon search, seven and half jumbo sacks of cannabis weighing 362kg were recovered while the driver, Ifeanyi Anyamele admitted to be the owner of the drug exhibits.
The previous day, Wednesday 16th March, narcotic officers in Ogun state recovered 865.2kg of cannabis sativa around Otapele- Obada road in Imeko-Afon LGA.
The consignment was brought in from Benin Republic on motorbikes for onward transportation to Lagos and Abeokuta.
Same day, operatives in the state arrested Bello Ibrahim, 38, with 312.4kg of cannabis sativa at Ogere tollgate, Ikenne LGA.
While commending officers and men of the NAIA, Kaduna, Anambra and Ogun state Commands of the Agency for their vigilance and diligence, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) charged them and their counterparts across the country to always remain steps ahead of the tricks of drug traffickers and the barons.
