The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 70-year-old man, Mallam Mai Gemu Adam, and 65-year-old Yamama Musa for drug trafficking in Borno State.
This was disclosed in a statement issued by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, March 10, 2024.
He revealed that the suspects were arrested on Saturday, March 9, along with 24-year-old Abubakar Ya’u and 28-year-old Babagana Abubakar Ali in Maiduguri and Gamboru-Ngala areas of Borno State, respectively.
Babafemi said 32,000 ampoules of tramadol injection were recovered from the suspects.
The NDLEA spokesperson added that the anti-narcotic officers at Geidam in Yobe State, on Saturday, intercepted a Golf 3 salon car heading to Gagamari in Niger Republic, where the 28-year-old occupant, Mala Tijjani, was to deliver 40 blocks of cannabis weighing 24.5kg to another dealer.
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He further disclosed that two suspects – Pam Thomas, 45, and Stephen Nyam, 38 – were on Monday, March 4, arrested with cannabis weighing 611.428kg at Zawan in Jos South Local Government Area of Plateau State.
He noted that 42 cartons containing 8,400 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,260 kilograms were also recovered from a 29-year-old driver, Mutari Ya’u, at Katsina road in Kaduna on Tuesday, March 5.
Babafemi disclosed that the officers of the anti-drug agency equally arrested a 35-year-old man Nura Yusuf, with 62kg cannabis at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano State, adding that Abubakar Sani, 40, was also nabbed with 244 bottles of codeine syrup, while 28-year-old Mohammad Alkali was found with 49, 800 pills of tramadol along Kano-Maiduguri Road in Kano on Thursday, March 7.
Babafemi, therefore, quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), as charging the anti-narcotic officers nationwide not to rest on their oars as they continue to intensify their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities in the country.
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