Three officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have been hospitalised for gunshot injuries sustained after they came under attack from some armed men during a raid in Jahi area of the Federal Capital Territory (FCT) on Thursday night.
The incident occurred when a team of NDLEA operatives acting on intelligence report raided an uncompleted building at NNPC area of Jahi where 74 bottles of codeine, 10 litres of codeine syrup, 48grams of tramadol, 225mg and 4.9kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, as well as five android phones were recovered.
As the NDLEA team made their way out of the location, they came under gun attack.
The wounded officers were initially stabilised at the Police Clinic in Garki Area 1 before they were transferred to the National Hospital Abuja for further medical attention.
Chairman/chief executive officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), expressed appreciation to the staff of the police clinic for their prompt support. He also thanked the chief medical director of the National Hospital who personally reached by him for overseeing the treatment of the wounded officers.
The NDLEA boss, who is in Kano on official engagements, also spoke on telephone with the injured officers to wish them quick recovery. He assured them that the agency would deploy every means at its disposal and work in collaboration with other security agencies to fish out those responsible for the attack.
