NDLEA Arrests 296 Persons for Drug Offences - Seizes Over 3000 Kg of Drugs
Daily Rendezvous The anti-drug agency in Nigeria (NDLEA) has nabbed 11 women and seized over 3,000 kgs of concealed drugs.within the year. The agency says, it has, in various crackdown within the year, arrested about 296 persons for various drug related offences. NDLEA revealed that during the crackdown, a drug lord who instigated a mob action that led to the beating of some the agency's officials and the killing of one NDLEA officer was also arrested. The state commandant of NDLEA, Femi Agboalu, made this known during a press briefing marking the United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Drug Trafficking, Monday in Yola, Adamawa state. Giving details into various operations of the Agency, Femi Samson Agboalu said about 296 drug criminals have been successfully prosecuted within one year and.that the seized illicit substances comprises of 2000 kilograms of cannabis sativa concealed in a motorised concrete mixer, which was impounded at Girei Local G...