By Mashe Umaru Gwamna
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in the early hours of Sunday 26th October raided a Proxy Night club at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, where a drug party was going on.
The NDLEA in a statement issued on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, said over 100 suspects including the owner of the club, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu alias Pretty Mike, were arrested and taken into custody for screening.
It said cartons of illicit substances including Loud, and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
“The raid followed intelligence about the drug party. NDLEA operatives who were embedded in the party between 11pm on Saturday 25th October however disrupted the gathering at 3am on Sunday 26th October based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
In Taraba, the duo of Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were on Tuesday 21st October arrested with 450,000 pills of tramadol and exol-5 at Dan-anacha checkpoint while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra state to Mubi, Adamawa state.
“While NDLEA officers on patrol along Okene/Lokoja highway, Kogi state seized 162.200kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, from a truck on Friday 24th October, operatives in Nasarawa state on Wednesday 22nd October recovered 128kg of same psychoactive substance from a suspect, Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi area of the state.”
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