*The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency discloses the operatives of the agency intercepted the tablets of illicit drugs, known as opioids, and other psychoactive substances meant for distribution in Borno, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Gombe, and Nasarawa states in Nigeria

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In continuation of the agency’s offensive against drug trafficking and substance abuse to protect the Nigerian consumers, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) discloses it has intercepted over 2.3 million tablets of illicit drugs known as opioids and other psychoactive substances meant for distribution in seven northern states.

Mr. Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA, who said this in a statement issued Sunday, August 21, 2022, identified the Northern states as Borno, Kano, Kaduna, Sokoto, Zamfara, Gombe, and Nasarawa.

Babafemi stated that the anti-narcotics agency’s operatives confiscated the聽 hard drugs from different locations across Kaduna, Kogi, Sokoto, and the FCT in a series of interdiction operations in the past week.

According to NDLEA Spokesman, in Kaduna, a drug dealer, Umar Sanusi, was arrested August 12, during a follow-up operation in Kano and brought back to the state where his consignment of 50 cartons of pregabalin 300mg.

He noted Sanusi’s consignment contained 750,000 capsules, weighing 375kgs earlier seized along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway was counted and weighed in his presence.

The statement said: 鈥淪ame day, operatives also intercepted along Abuja-Kaduna Expressway 7,068 bottles of a new dangerous substance of abuse, called Akuskura meant for Kaduna, Zamfara, Gombe, Kano and Borno.

鈥淭he recipients in Kaduna and Zamfara have been arrested during follow-up operations.”

Babafemi further noted: “The following day, Saturday, 13th August, 285 bottles of the NPS were recovered from a dealer, Abubakar Ahmad, along the same highway.

鈥淚n Kogi, no fewer than 696,000 tablets of Tramadol and Exol-5 among others loaded into a truck at Onitsha, Anambra state and heading to Maiduguri, Borno state, were seized along Okene-Abuja expressway on Friday, 19th August while NDLEA operatives also recovered 300,000 tablets of Diazepam from a suspect, Faruku Bello, 30, in Sokoto State on Wednesday 17th August.鈥�

Anti-narcotic officials also intercepted a bus loaded with 323, 200 tablets of Tramadol 225mg, in Abuja, and others at Onitsha, Anambra State heading for Nasarawa State, said the Spokesman.

He as well disclosed that the driver of the vehicle, Osita Nwobodo, 45, who made fruitless bids to compromise the operatives is now in custody.