Afrigather The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), has intercepted over 2.3million tablets of illicit pharmaceutical opioids and different psychoactive substances meant for distribution in seven northern states.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, stated this in a press release on Sunday in Abuja.
Bababfemi named the states as Borno, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Gombe and Nasarawa.
He added that the company had collection of interdiction operations up to now week.
Babafemi stated {that a} complete of two, 325, 553.00 tablets and capsules of Tramadol, Pregabalin, Hypnox, Diazepam and Exol-5 had been seized in all.
This, he stated, included 7, 353 bottles of a brand new psychoactive substance regionally referred to as ‘Akuskura’ meant for the seven states that had been seized from areas throughout Kaduna, Kogi, Sokoto, and the FCT.
In response to him, in Kaduna, a drug seller, Umar Sanusi, was arrested on Aug. 12 throughout a follow-up operation in Kano.
“He was introduced again to Kaduna the place his consignment of fifty cartons of pregabalin 300mg, containing 750,000 capsules, weighing 375kgs earlier seized alongside Abuja-Kaduna expressway was counted and weighed in his presence.
“Identical day, operatives additionally intercepted alongside Abuja-Kaduna categorical street 7,068 bottles of a brand new harmful substance of abuse referred to as ‘Akuskura’ meant for Kaduna, Zamfara, Gombe, Kano and Borno.
“The recipients in Kaduna and Zamfara had been arrested throughout follow-up operations, ” he stated.
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Babafemi stated that on Aug. 13, 285 bottles of ‘NPS’ had been recovered from a seller, Abubakar Ahmad, in Kaduna state.
He stated that no fewer than 696,000 tablets of Tramadol and Exol-5 amongst others, had been additionally seized.
They had been loaded right into a truck at Onitsha, Anambra state and heading to Maiduguri, Borno state, solely to be seized alongside Okene-Abuja expressway on Friday.
He stated that NDLEA operatives had additionally recovered 300,000 tablets of Diazepam from a suspect, Faruku Bello, 30, in Sokoto State on Wednesday.
“Anti-narcotic officers of the company in Abuja, FCT, equally on the weekend intercepted a bus loaded with 323, 200 tablets of Tramadol 225mg and others at Onitsha, Anambra state, heading to Nasarawa state.
“Driver of the car, Osita Nwobodo, 45, who made fruitless bids to compromise the operatives is now in custody, ” he stated.
Babafemi quoted the Chairman, NDLEA, retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa as commending the officers and males of the Kaduna, Kogi, Sokoto, and FCT instructions for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa urged them and their compatriots throughout the nation to accentuate their drug provide discount and drug demand efforts.
