Olusegun Ariyo
Three officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have been hospitalised with gunshot injuries sustained after coming under attack by armed men during a raid operation in the Jahi area of the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, on Thursday night.
This was made known in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja.
Babafemi disclosed that the incident occurred when a team of NDLEA operatives, acting on intelligence and surveillance reports, raided an uncompleted building in the NNPC area of Jahi. During the operation, 74 bottles of codeine, 10 litres of codeine syrup, 48 grams of tramadol 225mg, 4.9 kilograms of skunk (a strain of cannabis), and five Android phones were recovered.
