No fewer than 120 drug addicts have been rehabilitated by the Abia State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in three years.
This is, as the agency has arrested 65 suspects at various locations in the first six months of this year.
State Commandant of NDLEA, Mr. Bamidele Akingbade, who disclosed these in an interview with Daily Sun, said one of the suspected drug dealers arrested in Aba, was caught with arms while another one at Obikabia in Isiala Ngwa, had gunshot wounds.
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Both of them, he said, were handed over to the state police command for further investigation and prosecution.
Akingbade said the period of the Coronavirus lockdown brought increased activities of criminals, especially youths who resorted to using vacant school buildings as outlets for nefarious conducts, noting that his men engaged such individuals and their sponsors leading to several arrests and seizure of drugs suspected to be Indian hemp, cocaine, tramadol, and other narcotic substances.
He called on traditional rulers in the various communities not to allow schools and other locations in their areas, to be used as points where crimes were committed rather expose sponsors of such groups perpetrating acts of criminality to law enforcement agencies for possible arrests and prosecution. He assured that informants will be duly protected.
