In a sweeping crackdown on drug trafficking and illicit narcotics networks across Nigeria, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 22-year-old man suspected of supplying drugs to criminal bandits.
The suspect, Muhammad Mohammed, was apprehended along the Bichi-Kano highway while heading to Katsina. NDLEA operatives, acting on credible intelligence, intercepted him with 277 ampoules of the powerful injectable opioid, pentazocine. The narcotics were meticulously taped around his thighs and private parts in a desperate bid to evade detection.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, confirmed the arrest in a statement released on Sunday, April 13, noting that the seizure potentially disrupted the supply chain of drugs to armed bandits operating in the region.
In a separate but equally significant operation on the same day, 43-year-old Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz was caught with 68 blocks of skunk cannabis weighing a total of 30 kilograms in the Rimin Kebe area of Nasarawa Local Government in Kano State.
The agency’s nationwide offensive didn’t stop there. Within the past
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