Operatives of a special operations unit of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stormed forests in Omuo-Ekiti, Ekiti, destroying 14,654 kilograms of skunk and arresting two suspects.
The agency disclosed in a statement by its Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.
It said the operatives in another operation on Dec. 2 stormed the forests in Asin-Ekiti, Ikole Local Government Area(LGA), Ekiti, where they destroyed 54,300kg of skunk in two large warehouses that were razed.
Babafemi said that 28.3kg of the same psychoactive substance was recovered for prosecution.
He further explained operatives in the FCT Abuja on Dec. 3 intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a synthetic cannabis, weighing 22kg at Abaji expressway.
Babafemi said that a follow-up operation at the Jabi park in Abuja led to the arrest of a female receiver.
Also in the FCT, a suspect was arrested by operatives on Friday with 24kg of skunk and 573,500 pills of Exol-5 along the Kwali-Gwagwalada expressway.
In Lagos, “NDLEA operatives recovered 217 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 113kg from a suspect at Ladipo Market, Mushin.”
Babafemi said that a suspect was nabbed with 351kg of skunk at the Onipanu area of the state on Dec. 5, adding that another suspect was arrested with 104.1kg of the same psychoactive substance at the Trade Fair complex, Ojo, on Dec.2.
These include: WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of St. Michael’s Academy, Sabon Gari, Kano; Harry Pass Secondary School, Masaje, Gboko LGA, Benue; and Community Junior Secondary School, Okuru-Ama, Obio/Akpor LGA, Rivers, among others.
