The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered consignments of high-potency illicit drugs concealed in water purifier machines shipped from the Netherlands into Nigeria.
The agency disclosed that the intercepted shipment, discovered at a courier company in Lagos on Tuesday, May 26, 2026, contained 3 kilograms of ketamine and 199 grams of MDMA (Ecstasy) pills carefully hidden inside the appliances.
In a separate operation in Kaduna State, NDLEA operatives arrested a couple, Musa Sunday and Mercy Sunday, alongside another suspect, Salomi Ezekiel, 38, after seizing 100 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 1,246 kilograms from a residence in the Gonin Gora area on Sunday, May 24.
Also on the same day, officers intercepted a 30-year-old suspect, Sunusi Musa, along the Abuja–Kaduna highway at Jere with 380 rounds of military-grade 7.62mm ammunition allegedly being transported to Katsina State.
The suspect and recovered ammunition have since been handed over to the appropriate security agency for further investigation.
In Niger State, operatives acting on intelligence raided a warehouse in Gidan Kukah, Bosso Local Government Area, recovering 457 kilograms of skunk. A suspect, Godwin Zakka, 46, was subsequently arrested at his residence in Gbeganu, Minna, in connection with the seizure.
Meanwhile, in Enugu State, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Onitsha–Enugu expressway intercepted a commercial vehicle bound for Taraba State. A search of the bus led to the recovery of 22,000 tramadol pills, 100 ampoules of pentazocine, and 200 grams of bromazepam. The driver, identified as James Maigari Wisdom, was arrested.
The agency further noted that its commands nationwide sustained sensitisation campaigns under its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) initiative across schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities.
These outreach efforts included lectures at Government Secondary School, Adiabo in Cross River State; St Patrick’s Memorial College, Wukari in Taraba State; Roman Catholic Mission Nursery and Primary School, Ibeju-Lekki in Lagos; and Kings Secondary School, Amawbia in Anambra State, among others.
Mohamed Buba Marwa, chairman of NDLEA, commended officers of the Kaduna, Niger, and Enugu Commands, as well as the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI), for the arrests and seizures.
He urged personnel across the country to sustain the momentum in both drug supply reduction operations and public sensitisation efforts under the agency’s anti-drug campaign.
