Monday, December 15, 2025 - Three
weeks after escaping arrest at his home in Anguwan Makera, Kuta, Shiroro local
government area of Niger state, a notorious supplier of illicit drugs to
bandits operating in the area, 33-year-old Mohammed Sani (alias Gamboli) has
been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA)
at his hideout.
According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, the agency
received intelligence about Gamboli's activities. He said 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.''
Babafemi said NDLEA officers in Abia on Thursday 11th
December raided a clandestine codeine syrup-manufacturing factory at Amapu
Igbengwo village, Umuakpara, in Osisioma local government area of the state.
During the operation, operatives recovered a total of 9,015 bottles of codeine
syrup weighing 1,152.2kg.
Babafemi added that 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
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