The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives on patrol along the Kaduna-Zaria expressway on Saturday, 3rd May, intercepted a commercial vehicle coming from Nasarawa State heading to Zamfara State.
This was contained in a statement issued on Sunday by NDLEA, Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in Abuja.
A search of the vehicle led to the discovery of a total of Nine Hundred and Forty-Two (942) explosives concealed in a sack and the subsequent arrest of a 30-year-old suspect, Nura Sani Muhammad (alias Nura Hariji),’’ the statement said.
SolaceBase reports that Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), has directed that the suspect and exhibits be transferred to the appropriate security agency for further action.
Meanwhile, five members of a syndicate led by Aminu Musa (a.k.a Kadagi) were on Wednesday, 30th April, arrested by NDLEA operatives at Dangoro market, Kano, with 50 blocks of skunk weighing 21.6kg recovered from them.
In Edo state, operatives acting on intelligence on Thursday, 1st May, intercepted at Uromi, Esan North-East, a white Toyota bus conveying assorted opioids from Onitsha, Anambra state heading to Auchi.
Recovered from the vehicle include: 314,020 pills of tramadol, rophynol, diazepam, exol5; 638 bottles of codeine syrup and 200 ampoules of pentazocine injection, while a suspect
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