The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Adamawa state command says it has arrested 166 suspects and seized 619.081kg of illicit drugs worth millions of naira in different parts of the state from January to May.
The state commandant of the agency Idris Mohammed Bello made this known Monday while parading some suspects and seized drugs to newsmen at the command’s headquarters in Yola, Adamawa state.
Bello said the command has adopted a systematic approach in tackling the challenges of the drug in the state.
He said “we started by sanitizing the abattoir and we are making efforts to sanitize other places. The next place we visited was the Jambutu motor park. All the things you’re seeing here were seized at the Jambutu motor park.
We’ve been making pockets of arrest at the entrance of the park, but we were just taking our time to know where the drugs are been kept.
On the 14th of May, one Abba Aliyu Bello was arrested at the park with 220kg or cannabis sativa and other illicit drugs,” he said
Bello said he had a meeting with the chairman of the Jambutu motor park to map out strategies on what they will do to reduce or eliminate how people enter the park with illicit drugs.
He said the motor parks should be free and people should go in freely without any fear.
He further that drug abuse is one of the major drivers of crimes and criminality in the state, hence they continue to fight against the scourge.
“You see all these boys called the Shila boys that have been disturbing the state, we all know that when they take drugs that are what gives them the power to do whatever they do.
And that is why we are not going to relent we are going to ensure that whatever we are going to do we will ensure that Adamawa state is free of drugs, ” he said.
The commandant said other suspects were also arrested at Pella in Hong local government and Wuro Patoji in Mubi local government.
He expressed appreciation to the state governor, Ahmadu Umaru Fintiri for supporting the agency in its efforts to make the state free from drug abuse.
“I want to really thank His Excellency the Governor for his unflinching support to the agency. He has been supporting us well and that is why we have been able to do all these arrests.”
While thanking the citizens for their continued support to the agency, Bello urges them not to relent in giving the command useful information on drug peddlers and users in their localities.
“We also thank the citizens of the state for their support and the intelligence we are getting from them.
Without them, we will not go anywhere. We are still pleading with them to give us their support and relevant information on drug dealers in the state for us to do this work effectively, ” he pleads.
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