NDLEA in Action over Drug Trafficking in Ogun State

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has freely crushed more than 34, 560 kilograms of hard Drugs in Ogun. The NDLEA Chairman, retired Col. Muhammad Abdallah unveiled this in an announcement gave by head of open issues of the organization, Mr Jonah Achema on Friday in Abuja. 

Abdallah noticed that 34,182 kg of the medication demolished was cannabis sativa including that the amount of the medication had raised concern following the general population of the state. 

He said that others sedate included 0.0554 Kg of Cocaine, 0.0734 Kg of Heroin, 0.003 Kg of Amphetamine, 68.984 Kg of Tramadol, 271.115 Kg of Codeine, 22.108 Kg of Diazepam and 16.605 Kg of other psychotropic substances were crushed on Thursday Feb. 13. 

He included that the medication was annihilated by consuming it at a dump site, Oke-Diya, Shagamu, Ogun under the watch of the general public.He said that the activity was the joined endeavors of Ogun direction and Idiroko Borderland Special Area Command of NDLEA. 

"As you might be as of now mindful, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) 2018 Drug Survey in Nigeria positioned Ogun as the most noticeably terrible hit by the pervasiveness of medication maltreatment in the South West. 

"The overview uncovered that the South West locale, which involve Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Oyo, Lagos and Ekiti states, had no less than 4,382,000 medication addicts which structure 22.4 percent of complete pace of dependence in Nigeria. 

"The predominance in Ogun out of this 22.4 percent is 17 percent. What these insights are essentially letting us know is that we as a country need to wake up from our sleep and go up against the threatening medication issue head-on. 

"We have deplored alright over the dangers presented by the unlawful medication business though those utilizing the exchange have remained ever unique," he said. 


The NDLEA supervisor said that the defenselessness of Ogun to sedate maltreatment and unlawful medication dealing was justifiable in the light of its "portal status" with moderately permeable land fringes.

Reference to the Guardians Newspaper