NDLEA Arrests Couple For Drug Trafficking

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a couple: Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, in Kaduna, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilogrammes from their home at Gonin Gora area of Kaduna on Sunday, May 24, 2026.

The NDLEA has also uncovered consignments of high-potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped to Lagos from The Netherlands.

The illicit drug consignments, mainly ketamine weighing three kilogrammes and 199 grammes of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills, which were carefully hidden in the water purifier machines, were discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, May 26, 2026.

In another interdiction operation in the state, NDLEA officers on a patrol on Abuja-Kaduna Highway by Jere, the same day, intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 military-grade ammunition, RLA 7.62mm, going to Katsina State. The suspect and the exhibit have been handed over to the appropriate security agency for necessary action.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Niger State, acting on credible intelligence, raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso LGA, where 457 kilogrammes of skunk were recovered on Wednesday, 27th May, 2026, and a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, was arrested at his Gbeganu, Minna residence in connection with the seizure.

In Enugu, operatives on a patrol on Onitsha/Enugu Expressway on Thursday, May 28, intercepted a Taraba State-bound commercial vehicle marked JAY-158-YF. A search of the bus led to the recovery of 22,000 pills of tramadol, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grammes of bromazepam while a suspect, James Maigari Wisdom, was arrested.

NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said, “With the same zeal, commands and formations of the agency across the country continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities, among others, in the past week.

“These include: WADA enlightenment lecture for students and staff of Government Secondary School, Adiabo, Cross River; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari, Taraba; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju Lekki, Lagos; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia, Anambra state, among others.”

While commending the officers, men and women of Kaduna, Niger and Enugu commands as well as those of DOGI for the arrests and seizures, the chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Marwa (rtd) appreciated their efforts to reduce drug supply, balanced with WADA sensitisation activities, while he charged them and their compatriots across the country not to rest on their laurels.