NDLEA Uncovers Illicit Drug Consignments In Water Purifier Machines From Europe, Intercepts Cache Of Military-Grade Ammunition In Kaduna, Arrests Couple For Drug Trafficking

NDLEA Uncovers Illicit Drug Consignments In Water Purifier Machines From Europe, Intercepts Cache Of Military-Grade Ammunition In Kaduna, Arrests Couple For Drug Trafficking

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered consignments of high-potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped to Lagos from the Netherlands. The illicit drug consignments, mainly ketamine weighing 3 kilograms and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills, which were carefully hidden in the water purifier machines, were discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, 26 May 2026.

In Kaduna, NDLEA operatives arrested a couple, Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilograms from their residence in the Gonin Gora area of Kaduna on Sunday, 24 May. In another interdiction operation in the state, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Abuja–Kaduna highway near Jere, on the same day, intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 rounds of military-grade 7.62mm RLA ammunition being transported to Katsina State. The suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further action.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Niger State, acting on credible intelligence, raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA, where 457 kilograms of skunk were recovered on Wednesday, 27 May, while a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, was arrested at his residence in Gbeganu, Minna, in connection with the seizure.

In Enugu, operatives on patrol along the Onitsha–Enugu Expressway on Thursday, 28 May, intercepted a Taraba State-bound commercial vehicle marked JAY-158-YF. A search of the bus led to the recovery of 22,000 pills of tramadol, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grams of bromazepam, while a suspect, James Maigari Wisdom, was arrested.

With the same zeal, commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among others, in the past week. These included WADA enlightenment lectures for students and staff of Government Secondary School, Adiabo, Cross River State; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari, Taraba State; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju-Lekki, Lagos State; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia, Anambra State, among others.

While commending the officers, men and women of the Kaduna, Niger and Enugu Commands, as well as those of DOGI, for the arrests and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), appreciated their drug supply reduction efforts, balanced with WADA sensitisation activities, while charging them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels.