The Chad, Cameroon, and Niger Republics were receiving psychoactive Akuskura drugs from a factory in Adamawa State that was busted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
The factory was searched on Saturday in Mubi, according to a statement released on Sunday in Abuja by the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi.
He added that significant amounts of the substances were seized. “At the time of the raid, production activities were ongoing at the premises,” he said.
Additionally, he claimed that agency agents in Benue found 859 bottles of the suspected dealer’s abandoned codeine-based syrup, each weighing 117.3 kg.
According to the NDLEA spokesman, the bottles of cough syrup were dumped on Wednesday along the Enugu-Otukpo route around two kilometers from the NDLEA check station.
Babafemi added that on Friday along the Zaria-Kano route, two suspects, Kabiru Muhammed, 35, and Isah Muhammed, 28, were apprehended with 20 blocks of cannabis totaling 11.2kg hidden in a bag of cassava flakes (garri).
In a related development, the agents stormed an unfinished building in Ala town, Akure region, Ondo State, and found no less than seven bags of cannabis totaling 74.5kg.
According to Babafemi, one Aminu Mohammed was found with 60kg of the same drug hidden inside two giant sacks of shoes on the Ibadan-Oyo route in Oyo State.
The guy was stopped as he stood in line to board a car headed toward Kebbi.
