February 11, 2024

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested a 42-year-old man said to be transporting thousands of concealed opioid pills to an insurgents’ enclave in the Banki area of Borno State.

In a statement on Sunday by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the suspect was among 24 persons accused of trafficking drugs across the country.

According to him, the operations led to the seizure of over 7,609 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs in eight states.

Also arrested was a six-month-pregnant lady, a mother of three children, and three other women in major interdiction operations.

He said bulk of the seizures was made in Nasarawa state where NDLEA operatives, acting on credible intelligence on Sunday, February 4, intercepted a truck marked Lagos JJJ 64 YC conveying 367 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 4,037 kilograms from Akure, Ondo state, to be delivered at Shabu area of Lafia, the state capital.