The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), said its operatives have intercepted more than two tons of illicit substances across Ondo, Ekiti, Lagos, Ogun, Edo, Kogi and Anambra States in the last week.

Director, Media and Advocacy of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi stated that 859kg of Indian hemp, concealed among bags of sugar in a truck for onward transportation to Mokwa, Niger State were recovered.

The consignment, he added, was loaded at Ogbese in Ondo State and hidden among bags of cement in a truck before it was trans-loaded into another articulated vehicle in Ogun.

Spokesman of the agency added that NDLEA operatives in Ekiti seized 288kg of Indian hemp at Odo-Owa Forest in Ijero Local Government Area of the state on Saturday, November 25.

“At least, 116kg of Indian hemp were seized from a suspect, Chinagoram Obaru ,24, who was arrested at Iju Forest on Thursday, November 23..

“On Friday, November 24, NDLEA operatives in Ogun arrested two suspects – Adamu Ibrahim and Nura Sani at the Ileke trailer garage, on the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway,” he added 

He said that the agency’s operatives stormed a warehouse at Obi Camp in Owan West Local Government Area of Edo on Monday, November 20.

“They seized 338kg of Indian hemp concealed in sacks of charcoal in the raid.

NDLEA operatives also raided Ikhin Forest in Owan East Local Government Area of Edo on Saturday, November 25 and seized 235kg of the same psychoactive substance.

“Not less than 135,600 capsules of tramadol and 950gm of Indian hemp were seized from two suspects – Afamefuna Ibekwe ,37, and Sunday Onweh,41, at Nkpor, Akuzor and Ose-Ogbaijo, Onitsha, respectively,” he stated.

Babafemi added that 37,360 pills of different psychoactive drugs and 250 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered from one Muhammed Khamis ,22, on Thursday, November 23 on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja Expressway.

The drugs were being transported from Onitsha, Anambra to Abuja, Babafemi stated.

NDLEA Chairman,  Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa, commended the officers and men for the seizures and arrests.

He charged them to remain vigilant and  double their efforts, especially as criminal networks had become desperate to make quick money in preparation for the Yuletide season.