Army arrests nine suspected drug dealers, hands over illicit drugs to NDLEA in Yobe

Troops of the 27 Task Force Brigade of the Nigerian Army person arrested 9 suspected cause dealers and recovered assorted illicit substances successful Buni Yadi, Yobe State.

The suspects were apprehended by troops of the Brigade’s Garrison connected September 19, 2026, during an cognition aimed astatine preventing terrorists from accessing illicit drugs.

The arrested suspects were subsequently handed implicit to the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) successful Yobe on Tuesday.

Speaking during the handover, Major A. Balogun, who represented the Commander of the 27 Task Force Brigade, Brigadier General M.S. Mukhtar, said the cognition was successful enactment with the Chief of Army Staff’s mandate to disrupt violent activities and chopped disconnected their proviso of illicit substances.

“The apprehension formed portion of efforts to disrupt transgression activities susceptible of undermining information and creating enabling conditions for coercion and different forms of convulsive crime,” helium said.

The suspects were identified arsenic Hassan Ibrahim, Ahmed Mohammed Shuwa, Adam Jibril Jakadi, Musa Aga, Mohammed Mohammed, Isa Adamu, Usman Salisu, Mohammed Abiso and Buba Kambari.

Exhibits recovered from them included cannabis sativa, tramadol, codeine, soak and die, maestro spot and different illicit drugs.

The Deputy Commander of Operations, NDLEA Yobe State Command, Garba Yakubu, who received the suspects, sa...