By IBIRONKE ARIYO

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs in Anambra, Cross River, Nasarawa, Taraba, Ekiti, and Lagos states.

NDLEA?s Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi, announced this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi said that in Cross River, the NDLEA?s patrol team along Ogoja ? Abakaliki Road on Thursday, intercepted 170,000 pills of tramadol in a truck.

He said that the agency?s operatives at the Apapa Seaport in Lagos on Feb. 11, also recovered 85,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup in a container imported from India.

According to him, two suspects were also nabbed at Bama Road, Maiduguri on Friday with 60 compressed blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 72 kg.

Similarly, Babafemi said that NDLEA?s operatives raided a notorious drug joint at Iloda Street, Ikole-Ekiti and arrested and detained three suspects.

The NDLEA spokesman said that a total of 83 kilograms of skunk were recovered from them.

He noted that operatives also on Saturday, arrested and detained a 28-year-old female suspect following a raid on her Lekki home in Lagos where 169.5 litres of nitrous oxide popularly known as laughing gas and 111 grams of Loud were recovered.

?Also, not less than 132.84 kilograms of skunk were recovered from two suspects in Taraba,? he said.

He said a total 132.84kg of Arizona and Ghana Loud were found on two other suspects arrested at Wukari, Takanaba, and Sabongari in Jalingo Local Government Area of Taraba.

Babafemi said the agency has continued its war against drug abuse nationwide through sensitisation lectures and advocacy visits to worship centres, schools, workplaces, palaces of traditional rulers and communities. (NAN)