he National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested three persons living with disabilities, including a 60-year-old man, during separate anti-drug operations in Anambra State and Kwara State.

The agency also uncovered a cannabis stash house valued at ₦5.8 billion in Lekki Phase 1 and dismantled a skuchies production factory in Lagos.

NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday.

According to the agency, 60-year-old Romanus Nwabara was arrested in Akpaka Forest, Onitsha, after allegedly being found with 250 grams of skunk packaged in retail sachets.

In another operation at Ogbunike, NDLEA operatives arrested Amos Kenneth, 25, with quantities of Tramadol, Diazepam, Exol-5 and skunk.

The agency also said operatives intercepted a commercial vehicle along Bode Saadu in Kwara State, where another suspect, Usman Salisu, was allegedly caught with 6.3 kilograms of skunk concealed in a school bag.

In Lagos, NDLEA officers raided a mansion in Lekki allegedly used as a drug warehouse and recovered 4,000 parcels of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, weighing 2,326 kilograms.

The agency estimated the street value of the seized drugs at over ₦5.8 billion and said two Mercedes-Benz buses and packaging materials were also recovered from the property.

Babafemi added that operatives arrested two suspects, Bose Jamiu and Gbenga Gege, during a raid on a skuchies production site in the Ijora Badia area of Lagos, where 270 litres of the substance and Tramadol pills were seized.

The Chairman of the NDLEA, Buba Marwa, commended officers involved in the operations and urged them to sustain ongoing anti-drug enforcement and public sensitisation campaigns across the country.