Salihu Ali, Abuja
Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA, on Saturday 25th November in Osun State arrested organisers of a night party tagged “Unholy Alliance for Stoners and Drunkards” where different types of illicit substances were going to be sold and consumed by patrons.
A press statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Mr Femi BabaFemi, disclosed that this followed credible intelligence that some persons would hold a night party at a lounge in Osogbo, the state capital.
He added that the organisers were found with drug exhibits.
“Soon after the organisers began to gather at Berrymist Lounge located at Ofatedo area of Osogbo to start the party, NDLEA operatives swooped on them, arrested them and recovered illicit substances of abuse and drug paraphernalia from them.”
BabaFemi further revealed that operatives in similar operations have recovered over 2 tons of illicit substances in Lagos, Ogun, Edo, Ekiti, Anambra, Ondo and Kogi states adding that some suspects were also arrested.
While commending the arrests and seizures of the past week by officers and men of the affected commands, the Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa charged operatives across all formations of the Agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their efforts, especially with the desperation of criminal networks to make money by all means as the yuletide season approaches.
