The
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA says it has arrested about eight
thousand two hundred and fifty-seven suspected drug traffickers and seized about
two hundred and sixty-three thousand nine hundred and forty-seven point
fifty-seven kilogram of illicit drugs nationwide in 2016.
The NDLEA
Chairman, Muhammad Abdallah, disclosed this at a news conference to mark the International
Day against Drugs and Illicit Trafficking in Abuja.
Abdallah
says arrested suspects comprise seven thousand seven hundred and twenty males
and five hundred and thirty-seven females.
He notes
that the number of arrests and seizures, when compared with 2015, 2016 figures,
recorded a marginal decline.
Abdallah
noted that the number of cases so far delivered in favour of the agency had
increased by five hundred and fifty-nine from one thousand six hundred and ninety
in 2015 to two thousand two hundred and forty-nine in 2016.
He,
however, solicited the support of the society, noting that the agency alone
could not fight against drug trafficking.
He urged
families, schools, religious organisations and other stakeholders in various
communities across the country to work as a team to control the use of illicit
drugs.
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