Crime
Over 17,000 drug offenders, 10 drug barons arrested by NDLEA since Jan. 2021- Marwa
Over 17,000 drug offenders, 10 drug barons arrested by NDLEA since Jan. 2021- Marwa
By: Michael Mike
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested over 17,647 offenders including 10 drug barons between January 2021 and May 2022;
The agency has also been able to get more than 2,369 persons convicted and jailed within the same period while 154,667.339 kilogrammes drugs have been seized in the first five months of Year 2022.
Addressing a press conference in Abuja on Monday on the programme of activities for the 2022 United Nations International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd.) also disclosed that “in 2021, about 8,000 drug users were counselled and rehabilitated, in most cases through brief interventions. We continued the effort in the first five months of 2022, whereby an additional 3,523 were also counselled and treated in NDLEA facilities.”
Marwa who was appointed to head the anti-narcotics agency in January, last year, said: “This year’s theme for the UN Day has beamed the light on an area of the drug problem that has until recent years been on the backburner of the drug discourse.”
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He added that: “For us at the Agency, we are abreast of time and trends as shown by the priority accorded treatment and care.”
Marwa noted that: “While the world has been grappling with the illicit drugs conundrum for over three decades, changing dynamics in the decade have forced a paradigm shift and re-adjusted perspectives that allow for drug narratives to be seen as exacerbating factors in multidimensional situations.
“That has brought to the fore the imperative of looking at the drug problem through the lens of public health and also tackling such as a broader social problem rather than through the conventional, narrow, criminal matter approach.
It has, therefore, also become prudent to initiate mechanisms and measures that are proactively extenuating. In our case, the National Drug Control Master Plan (NDCMP) 2021-2025, launched last November, has incorporated components that tend to the health concerns of drug abuse.”
He disclosed that in order to help drug users suffering in silence, the agency will soon be unveiling the NDLEA Call Centre that will be manned by professionals and experts in counselling, psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry and more to offer help to drug users who will make use of the toll free lines to seek counselling 24/7, adding that this will also enable those afraid of stigmitisation to be able to seek help without necessarily being seen or identified by anyone.
Over 17,000 drug offenders, 10 drug barons arrested by NDLEA since Jan. 2021- Marwa
Troops repel ISWAP attack in Chibok, two killed, two injured by stray bullets
By: Zagazola Makama
Troops of Operation Hadin Kai on Monday repelled a daring assault by suspected Islamic State West Africa Province (ISWAP) terrorists on Shikarkir Village in Chibok Local Government Area of Borno State.
Zagazola Makama gathered that the insurgents, who stormed the village at about 5:20 p.m., were met with swift resistance from troops, assisted by local vigilantes and hunters. Security forces engaged the attackers in a gun duel, forcing them to retreat after sustaining unspecified casualties.
However, during the exchange of fire, four civilians were struck by stray bullets. Two of the victims, identified as Ishaku Markson, 30, and Buba Zakariya, 28, sustained fatal injuries and were later confirmed dead at the General Hospital in Chibok.
Two others Yama Wadai, 41, and Maina Fali were wounded and are currently receiving treatment at the same facility. Medical personnel confirmed both are responding well to treatment.
Troops repel ISWAP attack in Chibok, two killed, two injured by stray bullets
Sokoto police arrest notorious bandit, recover AK-47 rifle
By: Zagazola Makama
Operatives of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the State Criminal Investigation Department (SCID) in Sokoto have arrested a suspected notorious bandit, leading to the recovery of an AK-47 rifle.
Police sources told Zagazola Makama that the arrest was made on June 23 at about 6:30 a.m. following actionable intelligence.
The suspect, identified as Rabi’u Antoro, was taken into custody and during interrogation confessed to being in possession of a firearm.
Following the confession, the Anti-Kidnapping Unit, on June 24, recovered one AK-47 rifle.
Sokoto police arrest notorious bandit, recover AK-47 rifle
Armed bandit kills rival in Zamfara, triggers deadly reprisal attack that claims 10 lives
By: Zagazola Makama
A violent internal dispute among rival armed bandit groups has led to the killing of at least ten residents in Tofa village, Magami District, Gusau Local Government Area of Zamfara State.
Zagazola Makama gathered that the incident began on June 22 when a notorious bandit identified as Uban Gora from the western flank of Tofa allegedly pursued and robbed a Golf vehicle traveling from Dansadau.
In a twist of events, another bandit from the eastern part of the village, reportedly angered by the robbery, confronted and fatally shot Uban Gora.
According to local accounts, the killing sparked a chain of deadly reprisals. On receiving the news of Uban Gora’s death, his gang leader mobilized heavily armed men and stormed Tofa village on June 23, opening fire on residents and killing ten people before fleeing the scene. Several people reportedly sustained injuries during the attack.
Community members buried the deceased according to Islamic rites.
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