The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested 136 drug traffickers in Anambra in the last six months.

Speaking during an event to mark the 2023 United Nations Drug Day on Saturday in Awka, the state capital, Daniel Onyishi, the state NDLEA commander, said the agency has convicted about 79 of the suspects arrested on drug-related offences.

He said the agency has so far seized 883.347 kilogrammes of illicit drugs, engaged youths across the 21 LGAs in the state and rehabilitated about 25 clients.

He added that the agency recently carried out an enlightenment programme in higher institutions, secondary schools and churches.

Thhese achievements were made possible due to moral and logistics support from the chairman of the agency, Muhammed Buba Barwa,” he said

Ngozi Chuma-Ude, the Anambra state commissioner for education, said substance abuse is a cankerworm which every right-thinking person must avoid.

Ude said drug addiction reduces human beings to vegetables, encouraging youths to shun the habit as it is hazardous to their health and wellbeing.

Okechukwu Osimone, the vice chancellor of Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, who described drug abuse as a “silent killer”, urged youths especially students not to be influenced into the consumption of illicit drugs.

“Drug abuse has become a menace in Nigeria such that no week ever passes without a report of illicit drugs intercepted at different parts of the country,” the VC said.

In 2021, Buba Marwa, NDLEA chairman, said 90 percent of crime in the country is linked to drug abuse — including terrosism, banditry and kidnapping.

Piggyeasterner:
https://www.thecable.ng/ndlea-136-drug-traffickers-arrested-in-anambra-in-six-months-79-convicted

Monsignor22:

Imagine being so miserable and jobless that you do vigils on the internet looking for every and any negative news to post about the SE...imagine me spending hours on the internet scavenging for any reports about ritual killings in Ogun or Oyo state to post?

You SW APC yorubass have really done more harm to the image of your people, even the fanatical "Allahu Akbar" chanting Northerners are far more tolerable than you lots


Tufiakwa!

Piggyeasterner:
https://www.thecable.ng/ndlea-136-drug-traffickers-arrested-in-anambra-in-six-months-79-convicted

waynetee:
Obi's Legacy

Piggyeasterner:
https://www.thecable.ng/ndlea-136-drug-traffickers-arrested-in-anambra-in-six-months-79-convicted

GeneralPula:

efcc and even ribadu confirmed it..that tinubu is highly corrupt

Piggyeasterner:
their el chapo jaganban drug money forfeiter suppose dey jail

femisplash:
Druglord Tinubu is their master

Monsignor22:

Imagine being so miserable and jobless that you do vigils on the internet looking for every and any negative news to post about the SE...imagine me spending hours on the internet scavenging for any reports about ritual killings in Ogun or Oyo state to post?

You SW APC yorubass have really done more harm to the image of your people, even the fanatical "Allahu Akbar" chanting Northerners are far more tolerable than you lots


Tufiakwa!

Corporate2020:
It’s a generational inherited trade

EcoNews:
You deserve to die of shame
136 cocaine pusher and you have not a single to utter against such criminal instead your pathetic wretched n miserable soul is chastising those complaining of such high number of drug dealer so you can make amends

fuckuigbos:
Their culture supports and celebrates crime so don't expect him to condemn it.
I am sure he is a criminal.

Piggyeasterner:
guilty conscience

Greenback:
..Iggy

Piggyeasterner:
this same tribe accuse Tinubu everyday for drug trafficking

doffman:


I wonder ooo
They called Tinubu with drugs while themselves are headquarters of drugs.

No be juju be that .

Alliswell248:
Audio billionaires that can do anything for money.

Ndi developers