The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized a total of 100 blocks of cannabis weighing 55kgs and 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup.
Its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued Sunday said the items were seized from the duo of Salisu Murtala and Shafi’u Dahiru on Tuesday 11th September along Abuja road have been traced to two other suspects: Muntari Nasiru and Yusuf Ali who were arrested in follow up operations in Kano.
He also revealed that in Abuja, a 27-year-old Kingsley Chimaobi was arrested with 6,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup along Lokogoma-Abuja road on Tuesday 11th September.
Babafemi noted that a Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday 13th September sentenced to five years imprisonment a drug dealer, Segun Odeyemi for trafficking and dealing in 3,842 kilograms of skunk.
He was arrested on Saturday 1st July while conveying 89 jumbo bags of the illicit substance in his truck around the Eleganza area of Ajah, Lekki.
The agency spokesperson noted that he was subsequently charged in suit number FHC/L/388C/2023 presided over by Justice Akintayo Aluko.
He stressed that the Chairman of NDLEA, Brig-Gen. Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers and men of Imo, Kaduna, Ogun, Kogi, FCT and Lagos Commands as well as those of DOGI for intensifying their drug control efforts.