The Adamawa State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, confiscated 4,880 kg of illegal substances and detained 536 suspected drug offenders during the year 2024.
Agboalu Samson, the agency’s state commander, told reporters in Yola on Monday that 518 of the suspects were men and 18 were women.
During a review news conference in Yola, the NDLEA commander identified the collected narcotics as Cannabis Sativa (3,180.36422 kilos) and psychoactive substances (1,700.29013 kilograms).
He divided the seizures into 1,090.63296 kilograms of Tramadol (equal to 1,758,868 capsules, tablets, and milliliters), 6.8665 kilograms of Diazepam (33,259 tablets), 577.60667 kilograms of Exol-5 (1,636,989 tablets), and 19.932 kilograms of codeine-laced cough syrups (44,592 milliliters).
He stated the recovered substances included 0.0381 kilograms of methamphetamine, 0.015 kilograms of cocaine, 5 kilos (22 bottles) of formalin (locally known as Suck and Die), and 1.4 kilograms (15 bottles) of Akuskura herbal combination.
He expressed concern that the variety of narcotics confiscated highlights the developing difficulties of drug misuse and trafficking in Adamawa State.
He said, however, that his command’s legal efforts had good results, with 148 convictions in 2024, ranging from three months to 25 years.
