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NDLEA Busts Drug Cartels In Three States
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have busted three major inter-state drug cartels supplying illicit substances to some states in the North.
The operatives also recovered skunk and cocaine weighing over 843kilograms from them.
The operatives also arrested seven of the drug kingpins behind the syndicates in separate raids carried out in Kogi, Nasarawa and Benue states.
In a statement in Abuja, yesterday, the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said that in a bid to evade the frequent road interdiction efforts by officers of the Kogi State Command of the agency, a cartel led by one Augustine Emmanuel, 45, opted to move its consignments through the waterways between Edo and Kogi states.
He said they were, however, intercepted, last Monday, at a Jetty in Idah, Kogi State, where a Toyota Avalon car with registration number: Lagos SMK 345 CG, loaded with 487kg of cannabis and ferried across the waterways from Agenegbode, Edo State to the Jetty in Idah, was seized, and the syndicate leader arrested.