- Agency hands suspect to security agencies as agency seizes drugs worth millions across three states
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have intercepted 380 rounds of military-grade 7.62mm ammunition in Kaduna and arrested three suspects over more than 1.2 tonnes of cannabis, the agency said Sunday 31 May 2026.
In the ammunition seizure, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Abuja-Kaduna highway by Jere on Sunday 24 May stopped a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, who was transporting the RLA 7.62mm rounds en route to Katsina State.
The suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further investigation, NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday.
The same day in Kaduna, NDLEA operatives raided a residence at Gonin Gora area and arrested a couple, Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38. The agency recovered 100 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 1,246 kilograms from their home.
In a separate operation in Niger State, NDLEA operatives acting on credible intelligence raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA on Wednesday 27 May. They recovered 457 kilograms of skunk and later arrested a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, at his Gbeganu, Minna residence in connection with the seizure.
In Enugu, officers on patrol along the Onitsha/Enugu expressway on Thursday 28 May intercepted a Taraba-bound commercial bus marked JAY-158-YF. A search led to the recovery of 22,000 tramadol pills, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grams of bromazepam. A suspect, James Maigari Wisdom, was arrested.
NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) commended the officers of Kaduna, Niger and Enugu Commands and DOGI for the arrests and seizures.
He said the agency was balancing drug supply reduction with its War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, sensitization activities in schools, worship centres and communities nationwide, including Government Secondary School, Adiabo, Cross River; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari, Taraba; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia, Anambra.
Marwa charged operatives across the country “not to rest on their laurels” as the agency sustains its crackdown on drug trafficking and illicit arms movement.
