Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community popularly known as Shola Quarters, Katsina.
The groom Musa Gwandi and 25 youths participating in the drug party were arrested, according to a statement by the NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi on Sunday.
“Operatives, acting on intelligence, swooped on the suspects while they were busy taking turns abusing all sorts of illicit substances including a mixture of multiple drugs mixed in a plastic bucket.
“Though the groom, Musa Gwandi, who organized the drug party along with his friends was not at the venue at the time the 25 others were arrested, he was however nabbed on Sunday 3rd December following a manhunt for him, the NDLEA said.
In a related development, at least, three suspects: Monday John, 50; Maryam Adang, 48; and Mohammed Lawal Musa, 36, were arrested in different parts of Kaduna state.
While John was arrested with 28.4kg cannabis on Thursday 7th December, Maryam was nabbed with 18.6kg of same substance on Saturday 9th December, same day Musa, an indigene of Damagaran, Niger Republic was arrested with 34 kilograms of cannabis sativa along Abuja-Kaduna highway while on his way to Niger Republic with the exhibit.
In Kogi state, a 20-year-old Adamu Nuhu was arrested on Monday 3rd December along Okene- Lokoja- Abuja expressway while coming from Onitsha, Anambra enroute Kaduna with 2,700 ampoules of pentazocine injection; 11,900 pills of tramadol 225mg and 100mg as well as 124,000 tablets of diazepam.
In Borno state, NDLEA operatives recovered a total of 81,975 pills of tramadol from three suspects: Mohammed Abubakar, 25; and Hassan Mohammed, 25, both in Response Area, Bayo town while Suleman Hamidu, 27, was nabbed by soldiers on a follow up operation in Mubi town, Adamawa state.
While commending the officers and men of the NDLEA, the agency’s Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) urged them to maintain the tempo while creating a balance with their drug demand reduction efforts.
