NDLEA arrests Key Drug supplier of fleeing bandits.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended 33-year-old Mohammed Sani, alias Gamboli, a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to bandits in the area, at his hideout three weeks after evading arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local government area of Niger state.

Following credible intelligence about the illicit drug activities of Gamboli, NDLEA operatives had on 20th November 2025 raided his house at Anguwan Makera, Kuta, where they recovered 471.8 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis. Though he escaped arrest during the raid and has since been in hiding, the manhunt for him eventually paid off on Thursday 11th December when NDLEA officers acting on processed intelligence traced and arrested him at one of his drug joints in Anguwan Fadama, Kuta. Intelligence reports had indicated that Gamboli is a major supplier of illicit drugs to bandits operating in Shiroro local government area.

In a related development,no fewer than 907 pills of tramadol, tapentadol, cocodamol, amitriptyline and bromazepam  concealed in containers of local black soap, and designer wears, in six different consignments going to the US, Canada and Sweden were intercepted and seized by NDLEA operatives at two major courier companies in Lagos between Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th December 2025.

At the Apapa seaport in Lagos, NDLEA officers on Saturday 13th December intercepted a consignment of 170,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 23,579kg during a joint examination of a container with men of Customs Service and other security agencies.

In his reaction to the seizure  and the arrests, ,Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the Agency