Over 100 suspects have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at a drug party held at Proxy Night Club, 7, Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
The owner of the club, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, alias Pretty Mike, was also arrested.
They were all arrested Sunday morning and taken into custody for screening.
In a statement issued on Sunday, the spokesman of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, said cartons of illicit substances including Loud, and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
The raid followed intelligence about the drug party.
NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party at 11 p.m. on Saturday 25th October however disrupted the gathering at 3 a.m. on Sunday 26th October based on Standard Operating Procedures, SOPs.
In Taraba, the duo of Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were on Tuesday, 21 October, arrested with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 at Dan-anacha checkpoint while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra state to Mubi, Adamawa state.
While NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway, Kogi State seized 162.200kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a truck on Friday, 24 October, operatives in Nasarawa state on Wednesday, 22 October, recovered 128kg of same psychoactive substance from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi area of the state.
A mother of two, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, who is a major distributor of Canadian and California Loud, both strong strains of cannabis in Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and VGC areas of Lagos has been arrested by NDLEA operatives on Friday, 17 October, during a raid at her Lekki home where 500 grams of the illicit substances were recovered.
In Ikorodu area of Lagos, NDLEA officers on Thursday, 23 October, raided the home of a suspect, Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe, at Solomade Estate where 275 litres of skuchies, a new psychoactive substance produced with black currant drink, cannabis and opioids, were recovered.
A 75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka, was on Wednesday, 22 October, arrested at Ovum Village, Obingwa local government area, Abia State with 4.7kg skunk seized from him while a 60-year-old grandma Aukana John was nabbed with 225 grams of same substance at Apanta village, in the same local government area.
While 150kg skunk was recovered during a raid operation at Lot camp, Ikun Akoko, Ondo State, two suspects – Bashir Mohammad, 50, and Samini Ahmed Tijjani, 35 – were nabbed with 234.5kg of same substance at Yan aya, Saminaka in Lere local government area, Kaduna on Friday, 24 October, just as another set of suspects – Isah Usman, 50, and Salvation Okoler, 18, – were arrested with 8,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and rohypnol along Abuja/Kaduna highway.
At the Seme border area of Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, 22 October, nabbed Jacob Ojugbele with 55kg skunk at Ashipa area of Badagry while Amusa Oluwabukola was arrested with 121.3 litres of skuchies at Itoga Badagry.
In Zamfara State, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Gummi-Anka road on Monday, 20 October, arrested a suspect, Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, in possession of AK 47 riffle and 1,746 assorted calibres of ammunition, for AK 47 and GPMG rifles while moving them from Sokoto to Bagega forest, Anka local government area, Zamfara.
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Both the suspect and the exhibits have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further investigation.
With the same vigour, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitization activities to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others in the past week.
These include: WADA sensitization lecture to students and staff of Asabari Grammar School, Iluwa Isale Oke, Saki West local government area, Oyo; Government Day Girls Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi, Kebbi; St. Mark’s College, Nsude, Enugu; Kusaki Secondary School, Gboko North, Benue; Government Day Secondary School, Serti- Baruwa, Gashaka local government area, Taraba; Police Children School 2, Port Harcourt, Rivers and Hajara Ahmad International School, Tudun Wada, Kano State, among others. While commending the officers and men of MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Kwara, Abia, Nasarawa, Kogi, Ondo, Anambra, Taraba, Kaduna, Seme and Zamfara commands for the arrests, and seizures, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) urged them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the agency.
