By Henry Umoru
ABUJA—CHAIRMAN, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Col. Muhammed Abdallah (retd), has responded to the allegations of missing containers impounded by the agency raised by some stakeholders during the Senate’s roundtable on substance abuse in Kano City last December.
The response was the result of a directive by the Senate President, Dr Bukola Saraki, that a formal report on the incident as raised by some stakeholders, be submitted for Senate’s consideration.
A lecturer at Bayero University, Kano, Dr. Bala Muhammad, had at the roundtable, alleged that containers of Tramadol and other restricted drugs, impounded in January July 2016 and November 2017, could neither be accounted for by the NDLEA, while suspects arrested in connection with the illegal importation were allegedly set free.
Consequently, the Senate President directed the…
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