NDLEA seizes drugs worth N80m, apprehends 134 suspects.
Olaitan Ogundele
In a significant operation, the FCT command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated a total of 3,988.74 kilograms of assorted drugs worth N80 million.
Mr Kabir Tsakwuwa, the FCT command, Commander of Narcotics(CN), disclosed this in an interview with the Reporters in Abuja on Monday.
Tsakuwa, however, said that a total of 134 suspected drug traffickers, peddlers and abusers were also arrested in the same period.
He named the assorted drugs as cannabis Sativa, Cocaine, Methamphetamine, Tramadol, Rohypnol and Diazepam.
Several suspects were prosecuted and convicted during the period while the major drug that was seized by NDLEA operatives was cannabis sativa, according to him.
According to him, cannabis sativa seized within the same period included 3,861.789kg, while cocaine intercepted weighed 0.038Kg
“Others include diazepam which weighs 13.63Kg, Tramadol – 105.136Kg, while Methamphetamine weighs 3.024Kg; Ecstasy weighs 0.009kg, with Pentazocine weighing 1.070Kg.
“134 suspected drug users and traffickers were arrested in the third quarter, out of which 128 are males and six are females.
“The total street value of drugs seized within the same period is about Eighty Million Naira (N80m).
“One hundred and four (104) suspects were prosecuted, out of which 27 were convicted,” he stated.
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