NDLEA recovers 8,268kg of cocaine, heroin, skunk in raids across 7 states Intercepts assorted drugs going to Europe in 2 courier firms

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, have seized a total of 8,268.2311 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs including cocaine, heroin, tramadol, methamphetamine and skunk among others in a week long coordinated raids across seven states, namely; Ondo, Akwa lbom, Adamawa, Enugu, Bauchi Edo and Anambra. At least, 15 drug dealers including a woman on wheelchair were arrested during the “offensive action operations, which began on Sunday 1st August and lasted till Saturday 7” August, 2021 in the seven states.

The raids aimed at mopping up illicit drugs in the affected states followed intelligence and as part of the ongoing offensive actionordered by the Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) against all drug cartels across the country. The bulk of the seized drugs were recovered from Ondoand Edo states. In Akure, the Ondo state capital, a 27-yearold Omokayode Adedayo was on Friday 6 August arrested along Oda road, Akure South Local Government Area with a cocktail of illicit substances including cannabis sativa, cocaine, methamphetamine, tramadol.

While 59.3 kilograms of a psychotropic substance pentazocine was intercepted in a bus from Jos, Plateau state to Bauchi with the courier arrested, over 148.808kg of different variants of skunk, some of which were meant for students of lgbinendon University, Okada and Edo State Polytechnic, Usen, were recovered from two dealers; Sunday Ojodale Oguche, 21, and Endurance Ehigie, 23 onWednesday 4 August.

Meanwhile, different quantities of tramadol, methamphetamine and skunk going to the UK, Australia, New Zealand and UAE have been intercepted in two courier firms in Lagos by narcotic officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation, DOGI, in the agency.

Reacting to the outcome of the raids, Gen. Marwa commended the officers and men of the seven commands and DOGI for their diligence and charged them not to rest on their oars. He said the nationwide offensive action would continue across all commands until the last gram of illicit drug is retrieved from the street.

Femi Babafemi
Director, Media & Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja