{"id":129500,"date":"2023-12-10T19:37:41","date_gmt":"2023-12-10T19:37:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/10\/ndlea-busts-katsina-wedding-drug-party-arrests-groom-others\/"},"modified":"2023-12-10T19:37:41","modified_gmt":"2023-12-10T19:37:41","slug":"ndlea-busts-katsina-wedding-drug-party-arrests-groom-others","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2023\/12\/10\/ndlea-busts-katsina-wedding-drug-party-arrests-groom-others\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Busts Katsina Wedding Drug Party, Arrests Groom, Others"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community identified as Shola Quarters, Katsina and arrested 25 youths participating in the party.<\/p>\n<p>It was gathered that NDLEA reportedly swooped on the suspects while they were busy taking some illicit substances including a mixture of multiple drugs mixed in a plastic bucket.<\/p>\n<p>According to the spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, led his out on Sunday in a statement made available to the public.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/Drug-party-suspects.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cOperatives swooped on the suspects while they were busy taking turns abusing all sorts of illicit substances including a mixture of multiple drugs mixed in a plastic bucket.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0NDLEA Raids \u2018Drugs\u2019 Party In Osun, Nabs Organisers<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThough the groom, Musa Gwandi who organized the drug party along with his friends was not at the venue at the time the 25 others were arrested, he was however nabbed on Sunday, December 3, following a manhunt for him.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the same day, Sunday, December 3, operatives in Anambra state intercepted a truck marked BEN 302 YS (Edo) and after a search, 5,612 bottles of codeine-based syrup; 57,800 capsules of tramadol and 5,100 ampoules of pentazocine injection, among others were recovered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe driver, Ambrose Oyamedan, conductors \u2013 Samuel Otejere and Obey Jonathan as well as the truck were taken into custody for further investigation.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"code-block code-block-7\" style=\"margin: 8px auto; text-align: center; display: block; clear: both;\">\n<div data-advadstrackid=\"890536\" data-advadstrackbid=\"1\" class=\"infor-target\" id=\"infor-267421662\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/12\/300x250b.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"\/><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have disrupted a pre-wedding ceremony drug abuse competition in a community identified as Shola Quarters, Katsina and arrested 25 youths participating in the party. 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