By Demilade Adeniyi
Barely 48 hours to the forthcoming presidential election, the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said it has busted a warehouse, in the tropical rainforest of Ujiogba, in Esan West Local Government Area of Edo State, loaded with hard drugs suspected to be skunk.
The skunk was said to be awaiting distribution across some states of the federation ahead of commencement of the restriction order on movement nationwide, for the presidential election.
Breaking the news about an hour ago on his social media Timeline, the Director, Public Affairs of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said, the seizure followed an intelligence report of the activities of the drug lords in the area.
Sunrise reports that Babafemi said the drug lords who owned the large expense of farmland where the offending drug was warehouses, had offered initial resistance but they were overpowered by the men of the NDLEA, forcing the criminals to flee, leaving behind their arms, machetes and charms.
He said these arms and ammunitions were seized by the agency’s operatives during the encounter.
The statement read: “Following intelligence about a warehouse containing 72.86 tons of skunk for distribution across sm states ahead of Saturday polls, @ndlea_nigeria officers on Wednesday stormed Ujiogba forest, Esan West LGA, Edo State, destroyed it after gun battle with the drug lords. Guns, suspect seized.”
In accompanied video, the agency’s director showed the warehouse and the drugs already statched in bags being burnt by the agency after the operation.
He assured that the suspects would soon be prosecuted in the court of law.
Babafemi urged Nigerians to supply the agency with credible information that would continue to lead to the arrest of the criminals and to eradicate incidences of drugs and abuses in the society.
He said the NDLEA is poised to rod Nigerians of drugs and urged all well meaning Nigerians to join the crusade and put and end to the drugs menace in the country.