By EZEKIEL OBI, Abuja –
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered more than 1.2 million tramadol tablets in Gombe and Lagos states.
The NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement issued in Abuja on Sunday that 811,000 of the tablets were recovered in Gombe State.
He stated also that an Aug. 27 raid at a rented apartment at Raji Rasaki First Estate in FESTAC Town, Lagos yielded 412,780 tablets of Tramadol.
NDLEA operatives arrested a suspect in the Lagos raid, Babafemi added.
He stated also that a vehicle loaded with Diazepam and Exol 5 weighing 150kg was recovered at Ahmadu-Kafi area of Gombe. The vehicle took the drugs to Gombe from Onitsha, Anambra.
He stated also that troops of 81 Division of the Nigerian Army handed over 792 blocks of Indian hemp to the NDLEA recently.
The Indian hemp was smuggled into Ogun from the Volta region of Ghana, but intercepted at a checkpoint on the Ilaro-Benin Republic border.
NDLEA also intercepted a truck conveying animal feeds from Lagos to Kaduna on Sept. 1 and seized 449 compressed blocks of Indian hemp from it.
“Also, 111 bags of Indian hemp weighing 1,531kg belonging to a dealer in Zaria were seized.
“The drug consignment was said to have been loaded into the truck in Akure.
“The truck driver, Yahaya Sani, his assistant Samaila Rabiu, his motor boy Bilal Ibrahim, representative of the cannabis owner, Awolu Isyaku and a passenger Mustapha Abdulrahman were all arrested,’’ Babafemi stated
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