National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted two parcels of 2.82 kilograms of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis imported from the United States of America with Lagos as destination.
Its spokesman, Femi Babafemi said this in a statement yesterday in Abuja
Babafemi said NDLEA operatives from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, intercepted the consignment at a courier firm in Lagos on Thursday, February 6.
In another interdiction operation same day, but at a different logistics company in Lagos, anti-narcotics officers intercepted 80 ampoules of pentazocine injection 225grams concealed in cartons heading for Canada.
He said NDLEA operatives in Kano also on Monday, February 3, arrested two men, both 23 years old, at Gadar Tamburawa on Zaria road.
He noted that 15,396 pills of tramadol, which were concealed inside a gas cylinder, were recovered from the two suspects.
“In another operation same day, operatives nabbed a female suspect, 35, with 27 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 15kg at Sabon Gari area of Kano.
“A consignment of 12,800 pills of tramadol 250mg going to Shuwarin in Jigawa State was also intercepted by NDLEA officers on patrol on Kabba-Obajana Highway in Kogi State on Saturday, February 8, with a suspect, aged 33, arrested.
“Similarly, no fewer than 65 parcels of Colorado, a strong synthetic strain of cannabis, with a total weight of 1.600kg was recovered.
“The consignment was heading to Jigawa State and a suspect, 32, was arrested on the same day at a checkpoint, “he said.
He added that with the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
These, Babafemi said, include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Saint Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; Taangayar Malam Abubakar Bichi, an Almajiri school, Bichi, Kano.
Others are Federal Government Girls College, Calabar, Cross River; College of Nursing and Science, Birnin Kebbi; and Meiran Community Junior Secondary School, Abule Egba, Lagos State.(NAN)
