Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered consignments of high potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped to Lagos from the Netherlands.

Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement yesterday.

“The illicit drug consignments, mainly ketamine weighing 3 kilogrammes and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills, which were hidden in the water purifier machines, were discovered and seized at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, May 26, 2026,” Babafemi said.

He said in Kaduna, NDLEA operatives arrested a couple – Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday – along with another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, following the seizure of 100 jumbo bags of skunk with a gross weight of 1,246 kilogrammes from their home at Gonin Gora, Kaduna on May 24.

He added that in another interdiction in the state, the agency’s officers on patrol on Abuja-Kaduna highway by Jere, same day, intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, with 380 military-grade ammunition, RLA 7.62mm, on their way to Katsina State.

The suspect and the exhibit have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further action, the Spokesman said.

In Kano, the agency’s operatives in Niger State, acting on credible intelligence raided a warehouse at Gidan Kukah, Bosso Local Government Area, where 457 kilogrammes of skunk were recovered on Wednesday, May 27 and a suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, nabbed at his Gbeganu, Minna residence.

In Enugu, operatives on patrol on Onitsha/Enugu Expressway on May 28 intercepted a Taraba State-bound commercial bus marked JAY-158-YF. During a search of the bus, 22,000 pills of tramadol, 100 ampoules of pentazocine and 200 grams of bromazepam were recovered while a suspect James Maigari Wisdom was arrested, Babafemi added.

Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) appreciated their drug supply reduction

Source: The Nation News