By Remi Adebayo
...Intercepts cache of ammunition in Kaduna, arrests couple for drug trafficking
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered consignments of high potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped to Lagos from Netherlands.
The illicit drug consignments comprising mainly ketamine weighing 3kilograms and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills which were carefully hidden in the water purifier machines, were discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday May 26, 2026.
In Kaduna State, operatives of the anti-narcotic agency arrested a couple Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk.
NDLEA's spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday in Abuja said the seized skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilograms were being conveyed by the couple from their home at Gonin Gora area of Kaduna on Sunday 24th May.
In another interdiction operation in the state, NDLEA officers on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna Highway by Jere, same day, arrested a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 military-grade ammunition, RLA 7.62mm, en route Katsina State.
Babafemi said the suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further action.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Niger State, while acting on credible intelligence raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA where 457 kilograms of skunk were recovered on Wednesday May 27 and a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, arrested at his Gbeganu, Minna residence in connection with the seizure.
In Enugu, operatives on patrol along Onitsha/Enugu Expressway on Thursday May 28, intercepted a Taraba State-bound commercial vehicle marked JAY-158-YF.
A search of the bus led to the recovery of 22,000 pills of tramadol, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grams of bromazepam while a suspect, James Maigari Wisdom, was arrested.
The Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the personnel of the agency for their drug supply reduction efforts balanced with sensitisation activities.
Marwa charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels.
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