Customs, NDLEA intercept candies laced with Tramadol in Kaduna.

Tramadol tablets totalling 10,386 kg that were being brought into Nigeria from India by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency were also found mixed in with boxes of candy.in Kadun

In a statement released on Sunday, the director of media and advocacy at the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, claimed that the 225mg-specified drug was discovered in 720 cartons of two containers with the tracking numbers TRHU 4758549 and TRHU 6936803 during a joint examination with other security agencies on March 31, 2023.

This occurred at the same time as agents from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, NDLEA, stopped a shipment of 1.5kg of cocaine that was being shipped to London, United Kingdom, but was actually a box containing hair care, shampoo, hair rollers, and burners.

On March 27, NDLEA agents raided Dan Wata village in Kaduna’s Soba Local Government Area. Abdurrashid Musa, 33, was taken into custody with 142.8kg of cannabis, but the main suspect, Ibro Danwata, is still at large.

Babafemi also mentioned the arrest of Shamsu Abdullahi (aka Waja), 35, who had abandoned 80,000 Diazepam tablets weighing 13.4kg and eluded capture the day before, during a follow-up operation at Rigasa Kaduna.

In the meantime, on March 31, it was discovered that 63 bags of cannabis sativa totaling 600kg were hidden in a home in the Okpe village of the Akoko-Edo Local Government Area of Edo State.

“In Cross River State, 12,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg were seized from a female passenger, Talatu Adamu, 46, when NDLEA officers intercepted the commercial bus she was travelling in along Ogoja/Katsina-Ala Road on March 27.

“Also, a suspect, Abraham Alaigwu, was arrested at Slaughter, Trans/Amadi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State with 91.7kg of cannabis on March 30, while 228kg of the same substance was seized from Ayodele Osuya, 35, in a Toyota Camry car around Quarter Guard area of Akure, Ondo State.”