2027 Polls: NDLEA to intensify raids on drug hotspots in Edo

Ahead of the 2027 wide elections, the Edo State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA has vowed to intensify raid operations connected cause flashpoints crossed the state.
DAILY POST reports that Dr. Mitchell Ofoyeju, Commander of the Edo State Command of the agency, stated this erstwhile helium played big to the Edo State Resident Electoral Commissioner (REC), Obo Effanga, and the President of the Faculty of Peace Organization, Osunbor Kelly Omokaro, connected Tuesday, June 9, 2026, successful Benin City.

Ofoyeju said the operations are aimed astatine ensuring peaceful and violence-free elections crossed the state.

According to him, “We volition behaviour targeted raid operations connected identified cause flashpoints before, during and aft the elections. Our extremity is to instrumentality illicit drugs disconnected the streets and contradict transgression elements the means to origin disruption.

“Nigerians merit peaceful, credible elections, and NDLEA volition assistance pave the mode for that,” helium said.

He opined that the visits underscored the Edo State Command of the NDLEA’s increasing collaboration with authorities institutions and civilian nine successful the combat against cause trafficking and abuse.

While expressing restitution with the President of the Faculty of Peace Organization and different members, helium promised to enactment intimately with the enactment successful its tar...