The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered one million pills of opioids in Borno and Anambra raids respectively.
This is contained in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja.
Giving the breakdown, Babafemi said that no fewer than 418,330 pills of tramadol 225mg, 100mg and tapentadol 250mg were recovered by the NDLEA operatives.
He said that 8,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup were also recovered from a warehouse at a building material market in Onitsha, Anambra.
He said that the drugs were recovered on Tuesday Dec. 17 when NDLEA operatives raided the market following credible intelligence.
Meanwhile, at the Tincan Island port in Lagos, a total of 180,000 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered on Wed. Dec. 18 from a container, which originated from Mundra, India.
Babafemi said that the seizure was made during a joint examination of the container by men of NDLEA, Nigeria Customs Service, (NCS), DSS, Nigeria Police Force (NPF) and other security agencies at the port.
He said that a suspect, Makata Emmanuel, who was the consignee and notified party, was promptly taken into custody.
Also, a total of 293,000 capsules of tramadol, a pistol and 26 rounds of 7.65mm live ammunition were recovered from the duo of Ishaya Wabba, 54, and Samaila Audu, 44.
Babafemi said that they were arrested in a Toyota Sienna bus at Pompomari Bypass, Maiduguri, Borno state.
He said that another suspect Sanusi Hamid, 37, was nabbed at Gwange area of the state capital with 260, 000 capsules of the same psychoactive substance on Monday, Dec. 16.
Meanwhile, a 35-year-old suspect Modu Kolera was arrested on Wed, Dec. 18 at Custom area of Maiduguri with 8.5kg cannabis and 5,000 pills of tramadol.
“Other drugs intercepted were 7,500 tabs of diazepam; 14,500 tablets of exol and 50 litres of ‘suck and die’, a new psychoactive substance, in his Volkswagen Golf car marked DKW 812 AA,” he said.
In the same vein, a suspect, Gafar Saminu, 30, was arrested on Wed. Dec. 18, with 33.5 kilograms of cannabis sativa, at Ayete, Oyo state.
Babafemi said that NDLEA operatives in Enugu the same day raided the Aria new market where they recovered 94 kg of the same substance.
“In Lagos, a consignment of 32 kilograms ephedrine, a precursor chemical going to the South East was on Monday, Dec. 16 recovered at the Young Shall Grow Luxurious Vehicles Park, Maza-maza,” he said.(NAN)
