NDLEA arrests 1,860 suspects, seizes 5.4 tonnes of illicit drugs in Kano

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kano Strategic Command, says it arrested 1,860 suspects, including 92 females, and seized much than 5.4 tonnes of illicit drugs betwixt January and September 2026.

The bid besides secured 89 convictions and filed 126 caller cases successful tribunal during the nine-month period, portion 135 cases remained pending earlier the Federal High Court.

In a property connection issued on Tuesday, October 13, the bid said it seized a full of 5,409.814 kilogrammes of assorted illicit substances, including Cannabis sativa, cocaine, methamphetamine and psychotropic substances.

It said the figures reflected the standard of cause trafficking and organisation confronting Kano State, arsenic good arsenic its continued efforts to enforce cause laws.

Beyond enforcement, the NDLEA said its Counselling, Treatment and Rehabilitation Unit recorded astir 1,700 interventions to enactment radical affected by substance abuse.

It besides conducted astir 420 sensitisation programmes successful schools and communities to amended young radical and the wide nationalist connected the dangers of cause abuse.

The bid disclosed that Operation Restore Order led to the dismantling of astir 35 identified cause joints crossed the authorities and the apprehension of much than 300 suspects.

The cognition was co...