The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested 29,262 suspected drug traffickers, seized illicit drugs worth over N1.5tn and secured the conviction of 5,225 offenders in the last 18 months, the agency said on Friday.
The Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retd.), disclosed this in Abuja on Friday at the grand finale of activities marking the 2026 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.
Marwa, according to a statement shared with Saturday PUNCH by the Director, Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said the agency had intensified intelligence-led operations against drug syndicates, leading to major breakthroughs in dismantling transnational trafficking networks.
He disclosed that the NDLEA, working with the United States Drug Enforcement Administration and law enforcement agencies in Greece, France and Switzerland, recently dismantled the notorious Amadi Simon drug cartel.
“We have also successfully disrupted another international methamphetamine syndicate with the arrest of a 63-year-old Nigerian drug baron, Innocent Anochili, three Mexican nationals and six Nigerian accomplices,” he said.
