- Safiu Kehinde
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits, Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli), three weeks after evading arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, in Shiroro local government area of Niger State.
This was disclosed in a statement issued on Sunday by the NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
According to Babafemi, the NDLEA operatives had initially raided Gamboli’s house on the 20th of November following credible intelligence about his illicit drug activities.
While the operatives recovered 471.8 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, the suspected bandits’ drug supplier escaped arrest during the raid and has since been in hiding.
The manhunt for him eventually paid off on Thursday 11th December when NDLEA officers acting on processed intelligence traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta.
Gamboli, according to intelligence report, was alleged to be a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro LGA.
In the same day the suspect was arrested, NDLEA officers in Abia recorded another feat with a raid on a clandestine codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma local government area of the state.
During the operation, operatives recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.
In Enugu state, operatives arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Ossai Emeka, along Onitsha-Enugu Ezike Road with 7.2kg skunk, while Enoje Agada, 40, was nabbed along Enugu-Ezike-Ette Road with 94.6kg of same psychoactive substance.