{"id":16231,"date":"2024-02-09T09:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndlea-arrests-92-suspects-seizes-217kg-illicit-substances-in-kaduna\/"},"modified":"2024-02-09T09:02:36","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T09:02:36","slug":"ndlea-arrests-92-suspects-seizes-217kg-illicit-substances-in-kaduna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndlea-arrests-92-suspects-seizes-217kg-illicit-substances-in-kaduna\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA arrests 92 suspects, seizes 217kg illicit substances in Kaduna"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Kaduna State Command, has arrested 92 suspects and seized 217.02kg of illicit substances since the beginning of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The state Commander of NDLEA, Mr Samaila Danmalam, made the disclosure on Friday in Kaduna.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the suspects comprise 88 males and four females.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the seized substances included Indian hemp, cocaine, heroin, tramadol and methamphetamine.<\/p>\n<p>The commander said NDLEA operatives raided 19 illicit drugs in the state during the period.<\/p>\n<p>He said the command secured conviction of 24 suspects and charged 25 to court during the period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cln its drug demand reduction efforts, 29 drug users were counselled while seven drug addicts were successfully rehabilitated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn a bid to dissuade members of the public from illicit drug use and trafficking, enlightenment campaigns were carried out at various locations targeting 6,956 participants,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>NDLEA arrests 92 suspects, seizes 217kg illicit substances in Kaduna<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Kaduna State Command, has arrested 92 suspects and seized 217.02kg of illicit substances&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16232,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1319,384,386,15],"tags":[339,387,391,180],"class_list":["post-16231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-kaduna","category-metro","category-ndlea","category-news","tag-kaduna","tag-metro","tag-ndlea","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}