NKECHI NAECHE- ESEZOBOR— Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrestedt two suspects, Joseph Oluwasegun Adewale and Biodun Adelakun at Igbo Olumo, Ikorodu area of Lagos with assorted weapons.
Items recovered from them are: three locally made double barrel riffles; one locally made double barrel pistol; one English made pistol; one locally made single barrel riffle.
Others are three cartridges and one empty 9mm cartridge as well as an iron – head axe; seven litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant, cannabis and opioids.
Another raid in Lagos has led to the seizure of 47kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, and 25.46kg Nitrous Oxide popularly known as laughing gas at the notorious Akala area of Mushin.
In Ekiti, a 26-year-old suspect Adepoju Taiwo was arrested by NDLEA officers with 1.950kg Canadian Loud at Iworoko road, Ilokun, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, while Auwal Sani was nabbed by operatives on Monday 20th January at Bode Saadu in Moro local government area of Kwara State. A total of 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 36.56kg were recovered from him.
A Nigerien, Abubakar Lami, 45, with two others: Abba Sani, 35, and Auwal Aliyu, 32, were arrested by NDLEA operatives at Gadar Tamburawa, Kano, while 13.1kg skunk and 125 litres of ‘suck and die’, a new psychoactive substance were recovered from them.
In Gefen Kasa, Dawakin Kudu council area of Kano state, a cannabis plantation was located and destroyed by a team of NDLEA officers who arrested a suspect, Sabo Ali Muhammad, 45, linked to the farm.
