{"id":26411,"date":"2024-04-08T12:49:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:49:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/?p=26411"},"modified":"2024-04-08T12:49:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-08T12:49:02","slug":"ndlea-arrests-319-suspects-seizes-4-7-tonnes-of-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/2024\/04\/08\/ndlea-arrests-319-suspects-seizes-4-7-tonnes-of-drugs\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Arrests 319 Suspects, Seizes 4.7 Tonnes of Drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>By Gabriella Ogbu<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kano State has reported a significant achievement, with the arrest of 319 individuals and the confiscation of a remarkable 4.7 tonnes of illicit substances between January and March 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, the NDLEA&#8217;s Commander in the state, revealed in an interview with a local station that the arrests targeted a diverse range of individuals, including 14 women and 305 men.<\/p>\n<p>The anti-narcotics agency highlighted that the confiscated contraband comprised a substantial quantity of illicit drugs, totaling over 4 tonnes. Ahmad specified that among the seized substances were 2.3kg of marijuana and 2.4kg of psychotropic substances.<\/p>\n<p>Furthermore, the agency seized &#8220;over five million tramadol pills and 1.9kg of other dangerous substances,&#8221; according to Ahmad.<\/p>\n<p>Ahmad stressed that the NDLEA&#8217;s efforts extended beyond mere arrests and seizures. &#8220;We secured 33 convictions of individuals involved in drug trafficking and related offenses within the last quarter,&#8221; he stated. Additionally, he mentioned facilitating the rehabilitation of 26 drug addicts, processing 38 visa clearances, and conducting 30 drug integrity tests for both individuals and members of the Kano Emirate Council.<\/p>\n<p>As the Eid-El-Fitr celebrations commenced on Tuesday, the Commander reaffirmed the agency&#8217;s ongoing commitment to dismantling drug trafficking networks, apprehending offenders, and curbing drug misuse within the state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Gabriella Ogbu The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Kano State has reported a significant achievement, with the arrest of 319 individuals and the confiscation of a remarkable 4.7 tonnes of illicit substances between January and March 2024. Abubakar Idris-Ahmad, the NDLEA&#8217;s Commander in the state, revealed in an interview with a local [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":26412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[172],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26411","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26411"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26416,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26411\/revisions\/26416"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26411"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26411"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abujacityjournal.com\/livenews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26411"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}