The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a fake soldier, police officer and a youth corps member among 663 drug traffickers and users during raids at notorious drug joints in Lagos, Abuja, Benue and other parts of the country.
Spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi, said on Sunday in Abuja that assorted illicit drugs weighing over 153, 256.876kgs were either destroyed or seized in the past week.
He said that in Lagos, the notorious drug haven, Akala in the Mushin area of the state was on Friday, 15 October raided by a combined team of 70 NDLEA operatives and 30 soldiers in a joint operation code-named ‘Operation Still Waters’.
Babafemi said that 27 suspects were arrested while various drugs like cocaine, heroin, tramadol, rohypnol and cannabis, with a cumulative weight of 2,463.876Kg were seized.
In Ogun State, operatives on Friday 15 October intercepted one Williams Esuabom along Ore- Shagamu expressway with 562.5kg Cannabis being conveyed in a Toyota sienna bus, while in Benue State, narcotic officers in a joint operation with soldiers raided Lafia Park where six suspects including a youth corps member, Paul Ndubuisi, were arrested with different quantities of drugs.
In FCT, Abuja, a suspected fake Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP), Joshua Yusuf, who claimed to be serving in Kano was arrested along Gwagwalada expressway while conveying 45.5kg of Cannabis.
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