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The Ebonyi State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has seized 115.226 kilogrammes of assorted illicit substances and arrested 149 suspects successful the 3rd 4th of the year.
The State Commander of NDLEA, Mr Peter Ogar, made this known connected Wednesday successful Abakaliki, saying the arrests and seizures were made successful antithetic locations successful the authorities betwixt July and September 2024.
Ogar said, “The Agency successful Ebonyi had besides wrong the play counselled 82 suspects, comprising 64 and 18 females.
“In total, we arrested 149 suspects, comprising 112 males and 37 females betwixt the property brackets of 26 and 72 years.
“The fig represents some cause dealers, cause users and traffickers.”
He listed the seized substances to include: ace cocaine, 0.0023kg, Cannabis Sativa, 55.492kg, codeine syrup, 0.393kg, Tramadol tablets, 0.004kg, tramadol capsule, 0.437kg, diazepam 917 tablets, 0.964 and 47 amps, 0.226kg.
Others are methamphetamine, 0.0054kg, bromazepam, 75 tablets, 0.034kg, lorazepam 476 tablets, 0.100kg, monkey tail, 56 litres, 42.2kg, raphynol 24 tablets, 0.009kg and different psychotropic substances grossly weighing 115.226 kgs successful all.
He added that during the play nether review, 1 idiosyncratic was convicted, reiterating the officers’ readiness to combat illicit cause trafficking not lone successful Ebonyi but Nigeria astatine large.
“We were besides capable to transportation retired a sensitisation run of citizens successful the authorities similar the younker radical and assemblage heads connected the request to extremity cause maltreatment and trafficking,” helium explained”.
“We carried retired a bid of sensitisation successful superior and secondary schools successful immoderate section authorities areas of the state.
“I convey God for the harmonious and cordial narration that exists betwixt the Command and different information agencies,” Ogar added.
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