Agency Arrests Fleeing Drug Supplier To Bandits In Niger

Three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local government area of Niger State, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits, Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli), at his hideout.

The arrest of 33-year-old Gamboli followed credible intelligence about his illicit drug activities.

NDLEA operatives had on November 20, 2025, raided his house at Anguwan Makera, Kuta, where they recovered 471.8 kilogrammes of skunk, a strain of cannabis.

Though he escaped arrest during the raid and went into hiding, but the manhunt for him  paid off on Thursday, December 11, 2025, when NDLEA officers acting on processed intelligence traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta.

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said “Intelligence reports had indicated that Gamboli is a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro local government area.”

Meanwhile, NDLEA officers in Abia on the same day, raided a clandestine codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma local government area of the state and recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.

In Enugu State, NDLEA operatives also arrested one Ossai Emeka, 45, on Onitsha-Enugu Ezike Road with 7.2kg skunk, while Enoje Agada, 40, was nabbed on Enugu-Ezike -Ette Road with 94.6kg of the same psychoactive substance.

Babafemi further stated that a raid carried out by NDLEA operatives at a notorious drug joint known as “Beere the California” at Ido in Oyo State led to the seizure of 3.4kg skunk, 1.6kg Colorado, a synthetic cannabis and 400 grammes of methamphetamine.

The owner of the drug joint, identified as “Idowu The Killer”, is currently at large, while a suspect, Ajibade Faruk, was nabbed at the spot. Another operation at Idi Oro, Elekuro, Ibadan on Friday, December 12, led to the arrest of Olusanya Abosede, 35, and the seizure of 238.4kg skunk.

While the duo of Bashiru Babalola, 43, and Ugunwale Ranti, 50, were arrested on Wednesday, December 10 at Gbaji checkpoint, Seme Road, Badagry, Lagos, with 50,000 pills of tramadol 250mg, NDLEA operatives in Ogun State arrested two suspects: Akinwale Makanjuola and Joseph Owolabi with 73kg skunk at Iperu, just as another suspect, Wasiu Lateef, was nabbed with 25kg of the same substance at Oke Agbede, Imeko area of the state on Tuesday, December 9.