Kano: NDLEA arrests 56 in crackdown on drug hideouts

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Kano Strategic Command, says it has dislodged respective cause joints crossed Kano State and arrested 56 suspects during a three-day operation.

The Command’s Spokesman, Sadiq Muhammad-Maigatari, disclosed this successful a connection connected Wednesday successful Kano.

Muhammad-Maigatari quoted the agency’s State Commander, Mr Dahiru Yahaya-Lawal, arsenic saying that the arrests were made during a raid, arsenic portion of the ongoing “Operation Ramadan Mubarak” to guarantee a harmless and drug-free Kano during and aft the period.

He said betwixt February 6 and February 8, the bureau targeted notorious cause locations successful Kofar Mata, Fagge, Kasuwar Rimi, Medile, Badawa, and Sabon Gari areas of the state.

According to him, the cognition besides extended to different locations wrong and extracurricular the Kano metropolis to dismantle amerciable cause organisation points.

“The cognition was a continuation of earlier enforcement efforts aimed astatine sustaining unit connected transgression networks that person agelong operated successful these communities.

“The focused enactment was designed to disrupt cause organisation channels and reconstruct information to neighbourhoods affected by drug-related activities,” helium said.

Yahaya-Lawal said that during the raids, operatives recovered assorted illicit substances, including cannabis sativa, Exol-5, diazepa...