NDLEA nabs 75-yr-old grandpa, others in nationwide drug raids

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a 75-year-old man for drug trafficking in Abia State, as part of a series of nationwide operations that also led to multiple seizures and arrests across several states.

According to a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the elderly suspect was apprehended at Ovum village in Obingwa Local Government Area with 4.7 kilograms of skunk on Wednesday, October 22.

Babafemi added that another 60-year-old suspect was also arrested in the same local government area, at Apanta village, with 225 grams of the same substance.

The NDLEA spokesman said the arrests form part of the agency’s intensified crackdown on drug trafficking networks nationwide.

In Ondo State, NDLEA operatives reportedly raided a camp at Lot, Ikun Akoko, where 150 kilograms of skunk were recovered. Similarly, in Kaduna State, two suspects were arrested with 234.5 kilograms of skunk at Yan Aya, Saminaka in Lere Local Government Area on Friday, October 24.

“Another set of suspects was arrested with 8,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and rohypnol along the Abuja/Kaduna highway,” Babafemi said.

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He further revealed that in Lagos State, NDLEA operatives stationed at the Seme border area carried out two successful operations in Badagry.

“At the Seme border area of Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, Oct. 22, nabbed another suspect with 55kg skunk at Ashipa area of Badagry. Another suspect was arrested with 121.3 litres of skuchies at Itoga Badagry,” he stated.

In a separate operation in Zamfara State, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Gummi–Anka road intercepted a man in possession of an AK-47 rifle and 1,746 rounds of assorted ammunition.

“The suspect was also with 1,746 assorted calibres of ammunition, for AK-47 and GPMG rifles, while moving them from Sokoto to Bagega forest, Anka LGA, Zamfara. Both the suspect and the exhibits have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further investigation,” Babafemi explained.

The NDLEA spokesman noted that beyond enforcement, the agency continues to expand its **War Against Drug Abuse (WADA)** sensitisation efforts nationwide.

“Commands and formations of the Agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities, among others, in the past week,” he said.

According to him, these included educational outreach programmes in institutions such as Asabari Grammar School, Oyo; Government Day Girls Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi; St. Mark’s College, Enugu; Kusaki Secondary School, Benue; Government Day Secondary School, Taraba; Police Children School 2, Port Harcourt; and Hajara Ahmad International School, Kano State, among others.

The NDLEA reaffirmed its commitment to ensuring that drug traffickers and criminal networks are dismantled, while intensifying nationwide efforts to curb substance abuse and safeguard public health.

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