Three suspected transborder drug traffickers have been arrested with forty-eight thousand tablets of Tramadol.

They were nabbed while trying to smuggle the drug through Mubi, Adamawa state to the Cameroon Republic.

The suspects identified as Mohammed Hussaini, Adamu Bella, and Mohammed Umar, were arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.

Its Director, Media Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said they were apprehended last friday at Tsamiya Junction, Madanya Road, Mubi North Local Government Area of Adamawa State with the exhibits concealed in the packets of another drug.

When interviewed, they claimed the drugs were being taken to Bagira town along Nigeria-Cameroon border to be delivered to some Cameroonians for onward delivery to Maroa in Cameroon.

Also, in a similar operation by operatives of the Lagos State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at Alaba Rago area, one thousand two hundred parcels of imported Loud were intercepted.

Its Director, Media Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, says a strong variant of cannabis suspected to have been smuggled into the state from a neighbouring country with a total weight of one thousand two hundred and twenty-nine kilogrammes.

In another raid last Wednesday, at Suru Alaba, Ajeromi-Ifelodun, Lagos, operatives arrested one Ibrahim Musa, with eighteen thousand five hundred and thirty tablets of Tramadol, Rohynol, Diazepam, Exol-5, and one hundred and thirty-eight bottles of Codeine.

Babafemi said operatives at the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc, export shed of the Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, during their routine cargo search intercepted a consignment of twenty-two international passports.

The passports, he said, comprised of six different countries concealed in a bag of granulated grain (Gari) among other food items at the MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

“Nine of the passports were three each of the UK, France and Portugal, while the rest Nigeria – 8; Ghana – 4 and Cameroon – 1.

“Also at the airport, operatives equally recovered 12 parcels of cannabis weighing 4.95kg concealed in a carton of Golden Morn packaged for export through the SAHCO export shed.

“In Plateau; a team of NDLEA officers last Friday, arrested two suspects Emeka Ezenwa, 37, and Julius Akingbe, 45, for being in possession of 126.5 grammes of methamphetamine concealed inside a DVD player coming from Lagos.

‘While a raid in Kampani Zera – Wase LGA of the state last Friday led to the arrest of Fatima Sadiq, 20, who was caught with 21.3kg cannabis,” he said.

Babafemi said a similar raid last Friday of a notorious drug joint, Bakin Kogi in Ringim, Jigawa led to the recovery of different quantities of Cannabis, Diazepam, Exol-5 and some new psychoactive substances.

He said the drugs were with a total weight of 8.680kg and weapons such as knives, cutlasses, sticks, catapults and charms.

“In Edo state, operatives recovered 19 bags of cannabis weighing 144.10kg stored in the bush along Uromi Road, Esan North-East LGA ready to be transported to other parts of the country,

“While eight bags of the same substance weighing 111kg were recovered from a bush at Iruekpen, Esan-West LGA,” he said.

Babafemi quoted the Chairman and Chief Executive of the Agency, retired Brigadier-General Buba Marwa as commending officers and men of Lagos, MMIA, Adamawa, Plateau and Edo commands of the agency for their tenacity and vigilance.

He charged them along with their colleagues across the country not to relent make Nigeria drug free country.