…Recovers Over Two Tons Of Illicit Substances In Lagos, Ogun, Edo, Ekiti, Anambra, Ondo, Kogi Operations
OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday 25th November raided a lounge in Osogbo, the Osun State capital where a night party organised for illicit substance abuse was to be held and arrested some of the organisers who were found with drug exhibits.
The raid followed credible intelligence that some persons were going to hold a night party tagged “Unholy Alliance” for Stoners and Drunkards where different types of illicit substances were going to be sold and consumed by patrons. Soon after the organisers began to gather at Berrymist Lounge located in the Ofatedo area of Osogbo to start the party, NDLEA operatives swooped and arrested them and recovered illicit substances of abuse and drug paraphernalia from them. Those arrested include Ikotu Omolayo, 25; Fola Olabode, 30, and Akorede Adunni Ajibola, 22. The management of the Lounge has also been invited for further investigation. This comes on the heels of an earlier raid on Thursday 23rd November at Area 5 Forest Reserve, Ile-Ife where operatives recovered 156kgs of cannabis sativa.
The main organiser of the Unholy Alliance drug party, 30-year-old Gbemileke Adelola (aka BIG LHYNZ ) has just been taken into custody this morning by NDLEA operatives
Meanwhile, operatives in Ogun State on Friday 24th November arrested two suspects: Adamu Ibrahim and Nura Sani at Ileke Trailer Garage, along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, where 859 kilograms of cannabis sativa concealed among bags of sugar in a truck for onward transportation to Mokwa, Niger State. The consignment was loaded in Ogbese, Ondo State and hidden among bags of cement in a truck before being transloaded into another trailer bearing sugar in Ogun State.
In Edo State, operatives on Monday 20th November stormed a warehouse at Obi Camp in Owan West Local Government Area where they recovered 338kgs of cannabis concealed in sacks of charcoal, while in another operation in Ikhin Forest, Owan East Local Government Area, NDLEA officers seized 235kgs of the same psychoactive substance on Saturday 25th November. A suspect, Onah Kenneth Ikechukwu, 32, was arrested at Jattu, Etsako West Local Government Area with 11,690 capsules of tramadol, 295 bottles of codeine syrup and various quantities of Molly, Cannabis and Methamphetamine on Wednesday 22nd November.
A similar raid in Lagos on Wednesday 22nd November at Enu Owa Street, Lagos Island led to the recovery of 40,500 ampoules of pentazocine injection; 440,000 pills of tramadol in a store belonging to a suspect, Ebuka Amechi who is currently at large. Not less than 135,600 capsules of tramadol and 950grams of cannabis were seized from two suspects: Afamefuna Ibekwe, 37, and Sunday Onweh, 41, at Nkpor, Akuzor and Ose-Ogbaijo, Onitsha, respectively. 
While 37,360 pills of different opioids and 250 bottles of codeine syrup coming from Onitsha, Anambra State en route to Abuja were recovered from Muhammed Abba Khamis, 22, on Thursday 23rd November along Okene- Lokoja-Abuja Expressway, operatives in Ekiti State seized a total of 288kgs of cannabis at Odo-Owa Forest in Ijero Local Government Area on Saturday 25th November. At least, 116kgs of the same psychoactive substance were seized from a suspect, Chinagoram Obaru, 24, who was arrested at Iju Forest on Thursday 23rd November.
In the same vein, Commands across the 36 states and the FCT equally continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA), sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, workplaces and others. Some of these include WADA sensitisation lecture for students and staff of Comprehensive High School, Abia, Udi Local Government Area, Enugu; teachers and students of Dr Nuhu Sanusi Junior/Senior Secondary School, Dutse, Jigawa; students of Haneef High School, Jos, Plateau; students of Akinorun Muslim Grammar School, Ikirun, Osun; students of Zaibadari Michika Primary, Junior and Senior Secondary School, Michika, Adamawa; and students of Madarasatul-Islamiya Baichin Kako, Marna Gusau, Zamfara State, among others.
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