News Investigators/ The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has bursted a factory producing illegal firearms and nabbed a woman with 196 AK-47 ammunition in Kaduna.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Mr Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives had on Monday raided Sabon Garin Kangin, Kaduna state, where they busted a factory used for the local fabrication of firearms and arrested a 45-year-old man.
He listed the items recovered from the factory including 17 locally made Dane guns, two pistols, 25 Dane gun pipes and other materials used in manufacturing firearms.
He also said officers on patrol at Jere, along Abuja-Kaduna expressway on Friday intercepted a 31-year-old woman conveying 196 AK-47 live ammunition and N675,000.
In a separate operation at Grace Land, Sabon Gari LGA, on Wednesday, a 30-year-old man was arrested with 3,840 tablets of tramadol 225mg weighing 2.5kg.
Also, not less than 499.3 kilograms of skunk were recovered from two suspects when their hideout at Gonin-Gora area of Kaduna was raided by NDLEA operatives on Saturday.
Meanwhile, with the same vigour, Commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation.
This, he said, were 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 Poko Community Primary School, Poka, Epe, Lagos; Community Grammar School, Eyinni, Ibadan, Oyo State; Iganmode Grammar School, Ota, Ogun state.
Also included were High School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi, Federal Government Girls College, Efon Alaye, Ekiti state; Obasanjo Modern Primary School, Jos, Plateau State; and Government Girls Secondary School, Sabon Garin Gaidam, Kano.
Mr Babafemi said that Ondo state command of the NDLEA command paid a WADA advocacy visit to the Olu of Ilu Abo, Oba Olu Falae, among others.
He quoted the NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa, commending the officers and men of the Kaduna commands for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa praised their vigilance and professionalism, noting that the bust of the gun factory in Kaduna further underscored the link between illicit drugs and violent crime.
He charged officers across all commands to sustain the tempo of both drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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