The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, or NDLEA, conducted a raid on a lounge in Osogbo, the capital of Osun state, on Saturday. The raid was intended to be a night party for illegal substance misuse, and some of the organisers were taken into custody after it was discovered that they had drug exhibits.
The raid was carried out in response to reliable information that someone was planning a nightclub event called Unholy Alliance for Stoners and Drunkards, where a variety of illegal drugs would be offered for sale and consumed by attendees.
NDLEA operatives pounced on the organisers as soon as they started to gather at a lounge in the Ofatedo area of Osogbo to start the party, arrested them, and took illicit substances of abuse and drug paraphernalia from them, according to a statement signed by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy of NDLEA, on Sunday.
Ikotu Omolayo, 25, Fola Olabode, 30, and Akorede Adunni Ajibola, 22, are among those detained. For more inquiry, the Lounge’s management has also been invited. This follows a previous raid at the Area 5 Forest Reserve in Ile-Ife on Thursday, November 23, during which agents found 156 kg of cannabis sativa, according to the statement.
On Friday, November 24, agents in Ogun State detained Adamu Ibrahim and Nura Sani at the Ileke Trailer Garage on the Lagos-Ibadan Motorway. It was there that 859 kg of sativa cannabis, hidden among sugar bags in a truck headed for Mokwa, Niger State, were found.
The shipment was put onto a truck concealed among sacks of cement in Ogbese, Ondo state, and then transferred into another trailer carrying sugar in Ogun state.
The statement states that on Monday, November 20, Edo state agents stormed a warehouse at Obi Camp in Owan West LGA, where they found 338 kg of cannabis hidden in sacks of charcoal. On Saturday, November 25, NDLEA officers conducted another operation in Ikhin forest, Owan East LGA, and seized 235 kg of the same psychoactive substance.
“On Wednesday, November 22, a suspect, Onah Ikechukwu, 32, was taken into custody at Jattu, Etsako West LGA, with 11,690 tramadol capsules, 295 bottles of codeine syrup, and different amounts of Molly, Cannabis, and Methamphetamine.
Similar seizures occurred on Wednesday, November 22, at Enu Owa Street, Lagos Island. The seizures included 40,500 ampoules of pentazocine injection and 440,000 tramadol pills found in a store owned by the suspect, Ebuka Amechi, who is still at large. Afamefuna Ibekwe, 37, and Sunday Onweh, 41, were found to be in possession of at least 135,600 tramadol capsules and 950 grammes of cannabis, respectively, at Nkpor, Akuzor, and Ose-Ogbaijo, Onitsha.
“On Thursday, 23 November along the Okene- Lokoja-Abuja motorway, Muhammed Abba Khamis, 22, was found in possession of 37,360 pills of various opioids and 250 bottles of codeine syrup. On Saturday, 25 November agents in Ekiti state seized a total of 288kg of cannabis at Odo-Owa forest in Ijero LGA. After being detained at Iju Forest on Thursday, November 23, a suspect named Chinagoram Obaru, 24, had at least 116 kg of the same psychoactive substance found on him.
