{"id":38181,"date":"2024-06-20T14:04:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndlea-seized-7148-945kg-of-drugs-in-nasarawa\/"},"modified":"2024-06-20T14:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-06-20T14:04:36","slug":"ndlea-seized-7148-945kg-of-drugs-in-nasarawa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/ndlea-seized-7148-945kg-of-drugs-in-nasarawa\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA seized 7,148.945kg of drugs in Nasarawa"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Nasarawa State Command, says it seized 7,149 kilograms of drugs between July 2023 and June 2024.<\/p>\n<p>Commander of NDLEA in the state, Peter Onche-Odaudu, disclosed this at a news briefing on Thursday in Lafia.<\/p>\n<p>The briefing was part of week-long activities to mark the 2024 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking.<\/p>\n<p>Onche-Odaudu said the arduous task of checking the menace of drug abuse and illicit trafficking, despite the daunting challenges of logistics and paucity of funds, had resulted in modest achievements.<\/p>\n<p>He said that cannabis sativa accounted for 7,037.2 kg of the seizures; cocaine, 0.011 kg, methamphetamine, 0.185 kg, while sundry psychotropic substances accounted for 111.534 kg.<\/p>\n<p>The commander said the United Nations had set aside June 26 of every year for the commemoration of International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking by member nations.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the theme for this year\u2019s Day: \u201cThe Evidence is Clear: Invest in Prevention\u201d, was apt, as it emphasised the importance of prevention over cure in issues of drug abuse.<\/p>\n<p>NDLEA seized 7,148.945kg of drugs in Nasarawa<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Nasarawa State Command, says it seized 7,149 kilograms of drugs between July 2023 and&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38182,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[384,1625,386,15],"tags":[18638,3339,387,399,391,180,18639],"class_list":["post-38181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","category-nasarawa","category-ndlea","category-news","tag-7148-945kg","tag-drugs","tag-metro","tag-nasarawa","tag-ndlea","tag-news","tag-seized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181","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=38181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nigerdeltanews.ng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}