The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has
intercepted a commercial vehicle loaded with 942 explosives along Kaduna-Zaria
expressway.
The Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA, Mr Femi
Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said the vehicle
was coming from Nasarawa and heading to Zamfara.
Babafemi said the explosives were concealed in a sack
and the subsequent arrest of a 30-year-old suspect, Nura Muhammad.
He said the NDLEA Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba
Marwa, has directed that the suspect and exhibits be transferred to the
appropriate security agency for further action.
Meanwhile, five members of a syndicate led by one
Aminu Musa were arrested on Wednesday, April 30, by NDLEA operatives at Dangoro
market, Kano with 50 blocks of skunk weighing 21.6kg recovered from them.
Also, in Edo state, operatives acting on intelligence
on Thursday, May 1, intercepted at Uromi, Esan North-East, a white Toyota bus
conveying assorted opioids from Onitsha to Auchi.
“Recovered from the vehicle include: 314,020 pills of
tramadol, rophynol, diazepam, exol5; 638 bottles of codeine syrup and 200
ampoules of pentazocine injection.
“A suspect Dare Adeyemo was taken into custody,”
Babafemi said.
Similarly, a Mazda commercial bus marked XA343TSE was
intercepted at Agu-Awka junction, Awka, Anambra by NDLEA operatives on
Wednesday.
Also, Babafemi said that a total of 50,400 capsules of
tramadol, 500 tablets of co-codamol and 300 ampoules of pentazocine injection
were recovered while a suspect Chinedu Eneh was arrested.
In Niger state, NDLEA officers on patrol along
Kontagora -Mokwa road on Saturday intercepted a Mitsubishi canter truck marked
RBH 104 ZY.
“A search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 5,500
capsules of tramadol and 2,300 ampoules of pentazocine injection as well as the
arrest of a suspect Yusuf Abubakar, 30”.
Meanwhile, Babafemi said that after 10 months of
painstaking investigation, NDLEA operatives had arrested a wanted drug kingpin,
a 52-year-old Managing Director of Ovidaq International Ltd, Dominic Chiegozie
Obijiaku.
He said that the suspect was arrested over his
involvement in the importation of a consignment of 2,616,060 pills of tramadol
225mg intercepted by NDLEA at Apapa seaport in Lagos.
“A follow-up operation at his house in Lekki led to
the seizure of 51 wraps of Canadian Loud weighing 34grams,” Babafemi said.
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