NDLEA Raids a Drug Party in Katsina State
Operatives of the National Drug and Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have raided a drug party in Katsina State.
A groom and 25 others were arrested at the pre-wedding drug competition party.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi on Sunday, said the operatives raided the drug party at Shola quarter in Katsina, where they were abusing substances.
According to him, the substances include a mixture of multiple drugs in a plastic bucket.
Babafemi said the groom who organized the drug party was not at the party but was later arrested.
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On the same day, Sunday, December 3, operatives in Anambra state intercepted a truck marked BEN 302 YS (Edo), and after a search, 5,612 bottles of codeine-based syrup; 57,800 capsules of tramadol and 5,100 ampoules of pentazocine injection, among others were recovered.
The driver, Ambrose Oyamedan, conductors – Samuel Otejere and Obey Jonathan as well as the truck were taken into custody for further investigation.
Two ladies: Chiemenam Akusoba, 25, and Chidinma Ibenwa, 28, were also arrested on Saturday 9th December with 15.8503kg of Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cannabis sativa in Umuogbu, Nnobi, and Onitsha respectively.
At least, three suspects: Monday John, 50; Maryam Adang, 48; and Mohammed Lawal Musa, 36, were arrested in different parts of Kaduna state.
While John was arrested with 28.4kg of cannabis on Thursday 7th December, Maryam was nabbed with 18.6kg of the same substance on Saturday 9th December, same day Musa, an indigene of Damagaran, Niger Republic was arrested with 34 kilograms of cannabis sativa along with Abuja- Kaduna highway while he was on his way to Niger Republic with the exhibit.
