Operatives of the National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have raided a lounge in Osogbo, Osun State, where a night party organised for illicit substance abuse was held and arrested three of the organisers who were found with drug exhibits.
The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who made this known in a statement on Sunday, disclosed that the suspects were arrested on Saturday, November 25, 2023.
Babafemi stated that the raid followed credible intelligence that some persons were going to hold a night party tagged “Unholy Alliance…for Stoners and Drunkards” where different types of illicit substances were going to be sold and consumed by patrons.
“Soon after the organisers began to gather at Berrymist Lounge located at Ofatedo area of Osogbo to start the party, NDLEA operatives swooped on them, arrested them and recovered illicit substances of abuse and drug paraphernalia from them”, he noted.
The NDLEA spokesman listed those arrested to include Ikotu Omolayo, 25; Fola Olabode, 30; and 22-year-old Akorede Adunni Ajibola.
He stated that the management of the Lounge has also been invited for further investigation.
This comes on the heels of an earlier raid on Thursday, November 23rd at Area 5 forest reserve, Ile-Ife, where operatives recovered 156kgs of cannabis sativa.
He added that the operatives of the anti-drug agency, on Friday, November 24, arrested two suspects, Adamu Ibrahim and Nura Sani, at Ileke trailer garage, along Lagos-Ibadan expressway in Ogun State with 859 kilograms of cannabis sativa.
The NDLEA spokesperson disclosed that the cannabis was concealed among bags of sugar in a truck for onward transportation to Mokwa in Niger State.
Babafemi said the consignment was loaded in the Ogbese area of Ondo State and hidden among bags of cement in a truck before being transloaded into another trailer bearing sugar in Ogun State.
Commending the arrests and seizures by anti-narcotics officers, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their efforts, especially with the desperation of criminals to make money by all means as the yuletide season approaches.
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