The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted a delivery of 32 Improvised Explosive Devices that was being taken to a bandit camp in Niger State.
The spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi gave the update on Sunday.
The operation was carried out in anticipation of the presidential inauguration on May 29th and the start of the new administration across the country. Musa Muhammadu, who was caught with the explosives on May 22nd, has been transferred to the military.
In a separate incident, the NDLEA also recovered a shipment of methamphetamine concealed in soap containers heading to Cyprus.
Babafemi said, “In Adamawa State, operatives on stop and search patrol along Michika- Bazza road on Friday, May 26, arrested a Cameroonian, Ndawai Ngalou with a pair of Nigerian Army camouflage uniform bearing ‘Sunday U’ and two ATM cards belonging to one Turaki Mohammed and Ekene Izuegunam.
“Two ladies, Bilkisu Yusuf, 33, and Kauna Katsina, 25, were on Monday, May 22, arrested in Ningi town, Bauchi state with 11,080 pills of tramadol, while Uche Shadrach, 22, was arrested with 20,480 pills of the same pharmaceutical opioid on Wednesday, May 24, along Okene-Lokoja highway, Kogi state on his way from Onitsha, Anambra state to Minna, Niger State,”
He further noted that two suspects, Surajo Adamu and Muhammad Ali were arrested on Friday, May 26, with 379,200 tablets of Diazepam in the Alimosho area of Lagos, while the MMIA command of the agency took custody of 22 cartons of Tramadol 225mg weighing 1,144.30 kg and 12 cartons of Tramadol 120mg with a total weight of 320kg, all containing 2, 317, 400 pills transferred to the agency by the Airport command of the Nigeria Customs Service, on Thursday, May 25.
In Delta state, NDLEA operatives supported by men drawn from the Nigerian Army, NSCDC and the Police on Wednesday, May 24, raided the notorious Abbi town, Ndokwa West LGA where three suspects: Eunice Eneh, 52, Animan Ifeoma, 26, and Chuks Webema Dennis, 35, were arrested with a total of 343.9kg cannabis recovered from them.
“A similar mop-up operation in Bayelsa has led to the arrest of a wanted suspect, Ozoemena Egbochue, 38, at the Swali market in Yenagoa on Monday, May 22, following the earlier arrest of his sales boy, Morgan Eredeowei with 11,748 pills of tramadol and diazepam,” he added.
