Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) made a significant recovery of 399 improvised explosive devices (IEDs) along the Mokwa-Jebba Road on Thursday, September 7.

The IEDs were discovered in possession of a 39-year-old suspect named Asana Leke.

Leke claimed that he was given the explosives at a park in Ibadan, Oyo State, with the intent to deliver them to someone in Kaduna.

Subsequently, the suspect, along with the seized exhibits, was transferred to the military authorities in Niger State.

In addition to their efforts in drug control, various NDLEA state commands and formations continue to conduct advocacy campaigns against drug abuse in schools, places of worship, palaces, and local communities.

According to Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for the NDLEA, the agency’s operatives also intercepted consignments of skunk concealed within tomato pastes and methamphetamine hidden within used clothes intended for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

Babafemi further detailed the seizure of 20 kilograms of skunk concealed in tomato paste, which was intercepted at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, on Friday, September 8.

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1.60 kilograms of methamphetamine was seized at a courier company in Lagos. Another consignment weighing 556 grams of Canadian Loud, sent from Canada to a recipient in Ikorodu, Lagos, was intercepted by NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, attached to courier firms.

In separate operations, NDLEA operatives recovered 1,101 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud in Mushin, Lagos, and arrested three suspects. They also arrested Yinka Azeez in Abeokuta with 41 kilograms of cannabis and seized 426.5 kilograms of skunk from two suspects, Muhammad Aliyu and Abdullahi Zakariya, in Kano.

Further arrests included Onyeka Uzor in Anambra State with 64.8 kilograms of skunk and Tramadol, Destiny Irabor with over 180 kilograms of opioids in his Toyota Sienna bus, and two suspects, Ahmed Yusuf and Rilwan Nura, in Kaduna in connection with the seizure of 100 blocks of cannabis weighing 55 kilograms.

In Edo State, NDLEA operatives destroyed cannabis farms measuring 4.236347 hectares in the Ekudo forest in Onwude Local Government Area.

In addition, 22 bags of skunk weighing 261.4 kilograms were recovered from Amuodu Egwehide, and 17 kilograms of the same substance were seized from a 60-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eunice Egwehide, in Iloje Okpuje, Owan West LGA.