NDLEA arrests 73 suspects in Kano drug raids

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Kano Strategic Command, has arrested 73 suspects and recovered assorted illicit drugs during coordinated raids connected notorious cause dens crossed Kano State.

The operation, carried retired connected June 10 nether the ongoing “Operation Sharar Mafaka”, targeted the Filin Mahaha cause den, the Sani Abacha Youth Centre and locations successful the Sheka area, according to a connection issued connected Thursday by the command’s Public Relations Officer, Assistant Superintendent of Narcotics Sadiq Muhammad Maigatari.

The bureau said the intelligence-led cognition employed a “dislodge and occupy” strategy, whereby officers determination into identified cause hotspots, apprehension suspects, retrieve illicit substances and support a sustained beingness to forestall criminals from returning to the locations.

Items recovered during the raid included cannabis sativa, diazepam, pregabalin, Exol-5, a substance locally known arsenic “suck and die”, arsenic good arsenic different materials associated with the organisation and depletion of illicit drugs.

The bid described the workout arsenic portion of its sustained run to identify, dismantle and permanently disrupt notorious cause dens crossed the state.

Commander of the NDLEA Kano Strategic Command, CN D.Y. Lawal, said the bureau would proceed to intensify operations unti...