The Kogi State Commander, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, Alhaji Idris Bello, on Monday said the agency arrested 184 suspects in connection with drug related offenses.
He added that 16 of the suspects were convicted.
In an interview with journalists in Lokoja, the Kogi State capital, he also said that the state command of NDLEA seized 6821.42 kilogramme of illicit drugs and impounded 11 vehicles in the state in the outgoing year.
According to him, drug traffickers had always invented sophisticated and complicated mechanism of concealing their illicit wares.
He however claimed that the command had been foiling such sophisticated adventures of drug dealers.
Bello further said the command destroyed four massive cannabis sativa farms measuring approximately 35 acres after it executed a large scale operation in Ogori-Magongo Local government Area of the state during the year under review.
He added that the command successfully destroyed another 13,272.209kg of hard drugs publicly at Zango-Daji.
According to him, 85 drug-dependent persons had undergone short intervention training while 3 persons were rehabilitated.
He commended the media and sister agencies in the areas for their synergy, suspects transfer and intelligence sharing, which he noted assisted significantly to the achievements of the command.
The commandant appealed to the state government for the provision of logistics to the state command of NDLEA.
He also urged the public to continue to volunteer useful information that would assist to either totally eradicate or reduce incidences of drug dealings and usage in the state.
Source: Punchn
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