Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a suspected supplier of illicit drugs to bandits, Mohammed Sani a.k.a. Gamboli, in his hideout.
Gamboli, aged 33, was apprehended three weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro Local Government Area of Niger State.
The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, December 14, said that the NDLEA operatives had on November 20 raided Gamboli’s house at Anguwan Makera, Kuta, following credible intelligence about his illicit drug activities, leading to the recovery of 471.8 kilogrammes of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
Though he was said to have escaped arrest during the raid and had gone into hiding, the manhunt for him eventually paid off on Thursday, December 11, when NDLEA officers, acting on processed intelligence, traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta.
According to Babafemi, “intelligence reports had indicated that Gamboli is a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro Local Government Area.”
In another operation, NDLEA operatives raided a clandestine codeine syrup manufacturing factory at Amapu Igbengwo Village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma Local Government Area of Abia State on Thursday, December 11, during which they recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.
Same day, operatives in Enugu State arrested Ossai Emeka, aged 45, along Onitsha-Enugu Ezike Road with skunk weighing 7.2kg , while Enoje Agada, aged 40, was nabbed along Enugu-Ezike-Ette Road with 94.6kg of same psychoactive substance.
In Oyo State, a raid carried out by NDLEA operatives at a notorious drug joint known as “Beere the California” at Ido on same Thursday led to the seizure of 3.4kg skunk, 1.6kg Colorado, a synthetic cannabis and 400grammes of methamphetamine.
The NDLEA spokesman said that owner of the drug joint, identified as “Idowu the killer,” is currently at large, while a suspect Ajibade Faruk was nabbed at the joint.
Another operation at Idi Oro, Elekuro, Ibadan on Friday, December 12, led to the arrest of Olusanya Abosede, aged 35, and the seizure of 238.4kg skunk.
While the duo of 43-year-old Bashiru Babalola and Ogunwale Ranti, aged 50, were arrested on Wednesday, December 10, at Gbaji checkpoint, Seme road Badagry, Lagos State, with 50,000 pills of Tramadol 250mg, NDLEA operatives in Ogun State arrested two suspects -Akinwale Makanjuola and Joseph Owolabi – with 73kg skunk I Iperu Town, just as another suspect, Wasiu Lateef, was nabbed with 25kg of same substance at Oke Agbede, Imeko area of the state on Tuesday, December 9.
In Ondo State, NDLEA operatives, acting on credible intelligence, raided a compound in Ogbese, Akure North Local Government Area, on Wednesday, December 10, where they arrested a 55-year-old woman, Veronica Obi, and her 29-year-old son, Bright Obi. Recovered from them were 1,187 kilogrammes of skunk and its seeds.
A suspect Ohiomah Igbafe, aged 44, was arrested during a raid operation at Uroe Community, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo State, where 461kg skunk and its seeds were recovered on Tuesday, December 9.
In Gombe State, a 50-year-old suspect, Muhammed Sani a.k.a. Sha-Mu-Sha), was arrested with 40,000 capsules of Tramadol at Tunfure area, Gombe, while two other suspects – Muhammad Abdullahi a.k.a Sakalala, aged 52, and Muhammed Hamza (a.k.a Mamman), 32 years old – were nabbed at Ashaka Jalingo, with 56kg skunk on Monday, December 8.
No fewer than 907 pills of Tramadol, Tapentadol, Cocodamol, Amitriptyline and Bromazepam concealed in containers of local black soap and designer wears, in six different consignments going to the US, Canada and Sweden, were intercepted and seized by NDLEA operatives at two major courier companies in Lagos between Tuesday, December 9, and Wednesday, December 10, 2025.
At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, during a joint examination of a container with men of Customs Service and other security agencies on Saturday, December 13, NDLEA officers intercepted a consignment of 170,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 23,579kg.
In like manner, 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 to students and staff of Community Senior Secondary School, Sheme, Katsina; Government College, Tudun Wada Dankade, Kano; and Methodist High School, Makurdi, Benue, while the Enugu state command of the Agency paid a WADA advocacy visit to HRM Igwe Ikechukwu Samuel Asadu, who is the Chairman, Enugu State Council of Traditional Rulers.
While commending the officers and men of DOGI, Niger, Abia, Oyo, Enugu, Seme, Ogun, Ondo, Gombe, Apapa and Edo Commands for the arrests, seizures and their dexterity, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency.
