News Investigators/ The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has arrested three dispatch riders for distributing illicit substances around the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Abuja.
The NDLEA Spokesman, Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Mr Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives had conducted intelligence-led stop and search operations in Gwarimpa, Jahi, and Galadimawa areas of the FCT on Wednesday, July 30.
He named the arrested suspects as Sabo Sule, 24; Samuel Nnamdi, 28; and Idris Jibrin, 28, adding that a total of 149.8 grams of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, were recovered from them.
“Two other suspects: Aliyu Abubakar, 25; and Adekunle Agbabiaka, 30, were arrested along Abaji-Gwagwalada expressway with 91.1kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, on Saturday, August 2,” he said.
Mr Babafemi said that in Lagos, NDLEA officers acting on intelligence on Saturday arrested one Joseph Michael with 3.3 kilograms of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis in Mushin.
Mr Babafemi said that another suspected drug peddler, Ibrahim Sulaiman was nabbed in the Iwaya area of Yaba with 16.5 litres of skuchies on Friday.
According to him, no fewer than 100,000 pills of tramadol capsules were seized from a suspect, Hussein Yusuf, 37, at an NDLEA checkpoint along Vandeikya-Ogoja road in Benue state on Friday.
Mr Babafemi said that operatives in Edo state the same day raided a warehouse in Ekpoma where a suspect, William Alabi, 44, was arrested and 233.5kg skunk recovered.
He said that Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Ciroma Ibrahim Islamiyya School, Potiskum, Yobe; Sultan Maccido Institute for Qur’an and General Studies, Wamakko, Sokoto.
Also included were metro drivers of Borno Express Transport Services, Maiduguri, Borno state; and worshippers at Seventh Day Adventist Church, Abakpa Nike, Enugu state.
The Osun State command of NDLEA paid a WADA advocacy visit to Oluwo of Iwo land, His Imperial Majesty Oba Abdurasheed Adewale Akanbi among others.
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