Nigeria’s National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 1.3 billion pills of tramadol and 4.4 million bottles of codeine in just 18 months, a record-setting haul that shows both the scale of the country’s drug problem and the government’s efforts to confront it.
Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (retired), the NDLEA’s chairman, revealed the figures on Tuesday during a two-day government-citizens’ engagement forum in Kaduna.
He described the seizures as unprecedented and warned that the illegal trade in narcotics continues to pose grave public health and security threats.