NDLEA uncovers illicit drug in imported water purifier machines

…Intercepts cache of military-grade 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 the Netherlands.

Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, in a statement on Sunday, said the illicit drug consignments, mainly: ketamine weighing 3kilograms and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills which were carefully hidden inthe water purifier machines, were discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos.

This is just as the NDLEA said its officers on patrol along Abuja-Kaduna highway by Jere, intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 military-grade ammunition, RLA 7.62mm, going to Katsina state.

The Agency said the “suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further action”

Operatives of the anti-nacortic Agency, said they also arrested a couple: Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilograms from their home at Gonin Gora area of Kaduna

Also in Niger State, the Agency, acting on credible intelligence, raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA where 457 kilograms of skunk were recovered last week Wednesday 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, intercepted a Taraba state-bound commercial vehicle marked JAY-158-YF, where 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 Commands and Formations of the Agency across the Country have also continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.

These include, WADA Enlightenment Lecture for students and staff of Government Secondary School, Adiabo, Cross River; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari, Taraba; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia, Anambra State, among others.