1
00:00:00,120 –> 00:00:05,559
Speaker 1: Authority in Nigeria, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA,

2
00:00:05,719 –> 00:00:08,960
for the second time in five years, has intercepted and

3
00:00:09,039 –> 00:00:12,560
seized the deadly large consignment of illicit drug known as

4
00:00:12,679 –> 00:00:17,039
captagon or chemical courage, that gives uses apparent superpower to

5
00:00:17,120 –> 00:00:20,160
fight and stay longer for days or more without food.

6
00:00:20,559 –> 00:00:23,920
The illicit drug, which also helped uses conquer the power

7
00:00:23,960 –> 00:00:27,039
of fear, was first seized in twenty twenty at a

8
00:00:27,120 –> 00:00:31,160
paper seaport in Lagos by the Nigeria Authority, and in

9
00:00:31,239 –> 00:00:35,039
late April twenty twenty six, operatives of the agency again

10
00:00:35,200 –> 00:00:39,439
intercepted a consignment of the amphetamine substance in quiry state.

11
00:00:39,840 –> 00:00:43,280
The seizure may have confirmed that captagan, specifically known for

12
00:00:43,320 –> 00:00:47,280
inducing prolonged wakefulness and reduced fear, is now being actively

13
00:00:47,320 –> 00:00:50,880
smuggled toward conflict zones in the northeastern Nigeria that has

14
00:00:50,960 –> 00:00:54,520
recorded thousands of deaths since more than a decade. This

15
00:00:55,039 –> 00:00:58,679
according to some public confessions that mentioned captagon by name.

16
00:00:58,799 –> 00:01:02,039
In the Lake Chad region, there is extensive evidence from

17
00:01:02,079 –> 00:01:06,000
captured fighters and survivors regarding the use of white pills

18
00:01:06,400 –> 00:01:11,079
and combat drugs to maintain energy and endure starvation in

19
00:01:11,159 –> 00:01:14,599
line with this are confessions of captured BOCO HARM and

20
00:01:14,680 –> 00:01:19,159
Islamic State West Africa Province ICEWAP fighters have detailed their

21
00:01:19,200 –> 00:01:22,599
alliance on drugs to sustain them in the bush. Accordingly,

22
00:01:22,959 –> 00:01:26,879
a twenty one year old former BOCO HARM fighter, Alimodu,

23
00:01:26,959 –> 00:01:31,040
testified about the group’s systematic use of narcotics to manipulate

24
00:01:31,120 –> 00:01:35,159
and control its members. Alimdu, who escaped in twenty twenty

25
00:01:35,239 –> 00:01:39,000
one after years of being allegedly forced to fight, provided

26
00:01:39,000 –> 00:01:42,159
a rare look into the internal mechanics of the push,

27
00:01:42,480 –> 00:01:47,480
the psychological and chemical preparation required for combat, saying drugs

28
00:01:47,480 –> 00:01:51,239
were mandatory before operations. They told us, when you take it,

29
00:01:51,280 –> 00:01:54,200
you will be less afraid, you will be strong and courageous,

30
00:01:54,319 –> 00:01:57,719
adding that without these pills fighters felt to weak or

31
00:01:57,760 –> 00:02:02,239
fearful to engage in battle. That aside, some captured insurgents

32
00:02:02,280 –> 00:02:06,040
have described the cycle where drugs were once plentiful but

33
00:02:06,120 –> 00:02:09,719
became scarce as military pressure grew, and during these times

34
00:02:10,039 –> 00:02:12,439
they used the drugs specifically to numb the pain of

35
00:02:12,520 –> 00:02:16,039
hunger when food supplies were cut off for months. As

36
00:02:16,080 –> 00:02:20,400
supplies dwindled, hypotency, drugs were reserved strictly for commanders and

37
00:02:20,479 –> 00:02:24,159
those actively heading into rays to ensure they didn’t retreat.

38
00:02:24,479 –> 00:02:29,120
Survivor accounts, both former captives and civilian frequently mentioned the

39
00:02:29,240 –> 00:02:34,599
zombie like or robotic state of the insurgents, order strange

40
00:02:34,599 –> 00:02:38,199
strength which Escaped women have reported that fighters would go

41
00:02:38,319 –> 00:02:42,319
for days without sleeping or eating proper meals, appearing hyper

42
00:02:42,360 –> 00:02:46,719
alert and aggressive. Specifically, a reported drug captive, a sixteen

43
00:02:46,800 –> 00:02:50,120
year old girl who escaped Boco Harum, testified that the

44
00:02:50,199 –> 00:02:54,520
Islamic militants would force drugged girls when they started crying

45
00:02:54,680 –> 00:02:58,360
or showed signs of trauma, I knock them out or

46
00:02:58,439 –> 00:03:02,639
make them compliant. The sixteen year old girl, Mayamu Joseph,

47
00:03:02,680 –> 00:03:06,039
held captive for nine years in a Boko Haram camp

48
00:03:06,120 –> 00:03:11,080
within the Sandisir forest before escaping in July twenty twenty three,

49
00:03:11,240 –> 00:03:14,199
shared with the aid agency AID to the Church in

50
00:03:14,280 –> 00:03:18,759
detail the horrific conditions and psychological control methods used by

51
00:03:18,800 –> 00:03:23,479
the militants, stating whenever girls cried or showed signs of trauma,

52
00:03:23,879 –> 00:03:26,879
militants would forced drug him to knock them out or

53
00:03:27,039 –> 00:03:30,719
ensure they were compliant. While kaptagon before was the terror

54
00:03:30,800 –> 00:03:34,560
drug of the Middle East, notably used by Islamic State

55
00:03:34,680 –> 00:03:38,120
in Iraq and Syria. ISIS and OUST did President Bushah

56
00:03:38,159 –> 00:03:41,120
al Assad of Syria that were mass producing and supplying

57
00:03:41,159 –> 00:03:45,000
captagon drugs to several parts of the world, especially countries

58
00:03:45,039 –> 00:03:47,840
in the Middle East and Africa, a source of revenue

59
00:03:47,840 –> 00:03:51,840
generation and manipulating their own fighters to become more dangerous

60
00:03:51,879 –> 00:03:55,000
in attacking and showing no mercy to their enemies. But

61
00:03:55,120 –> 00:03:58,919
some security intelligence reports indicated that the shipping of captagon

62
00:03:59,000 –> 00:04:03,280
from Syria into who West Africa was primarily an industrial

63
00:04:03,360 –> 00:04:08,199
scale operation run by the Assad regime, using sophisticated maritime

64
00:04:08,520 –> 00:04:13,479
re routing strategies to bypass international detection. While ISIS aided

65
00:04:13,520 –> 00:04:16,839
the smuggling and the drugs use in small scale trafficking

66
00:04:16,920 –> 00:04:20,560
to fund its fighters. Investigations have found that the group

67
00:04:20,720 –> 00:04:24,519
lacked the state controlled ports and infrastructure required for the

68
00:04:24,560 –> 00:04:30,199
massive shipments recently discovered in Africa, which suggests the Assad regime,

69
00:04:30,519 –> 00:04:36,240
specifically the fourth Armoured Division, used a complex maritime relay system. Thus,

70
00:04:36,680 –> 00:04:40,920
massive shipments originated from the Syrian state controlled ports of

71
00:04:41,040 –> 00:04:44,759
Latika and Tartis, and the transit ships often stopped at

72
00:04:44,800 –> 00:04:48,680
ports in Libya, Egypt, or southern Europe. Like Italy’s port

73
00:04:48,720 –> 00:04:52,759
of Salerno to change cargo papers or cleanse the shipment origin.

74
00:04:53,160 –> 00:04:57,519
With countries like Nigeria and Morocco identified as transit points

75
00:04:57,519 –> 00:05:01,680
where captagon is offloaded before being smuggled back toward the

76
00:05:01,720 –> 00:05:04,839
Gulf or distributed locally, it would be recalled that the

77
00:05:04,920 –> 00:05:08,959
drug was originally and legally invented in nineteen sixty one

78
00:05:09,120 –> 00:05:13,360
by the German pharmaceutical company Degussa AG as illegal treatment

79
00:05:13,439 –> 00:05:18,639
for conditions like attention deficit hyperactivity disorder ADHD, which is

80
00:05:18,680 –> 00:05:23,680
a childhood brain’s neurodevelopmental condition that typically involves in attention,

81
00:05:24,240 –> 00:05:30,120
difficulty staying focused or organized, hyperactivity, excessive movement or restlessness,

82
00:05:30,360 –> 00:05:34,920
impulsivity acting without thinking about the consequences. And in addition

83
00:05:35,000 –> 00:05:39,439
to ADHD treatment, the captaggon drug was originally also meant

84
00:05:39,480 –> 00:05:43,160
to cure narcolepsy and depression, and the drug originally acted

85
00:05:43,199 –> 00:05:47,360
as a milder stimulant alternative to pure amphetamines, providing the

86
00:05:47,399 –> 00:05:51,720
benefits of focus and alertness with fewer cardiovascular side effects.

87
00:05:51,959 –> 00:05:55,680
But however, due to its high potential for addiction and abuse,

88
00:05:56,079 –> 00:05:59,959
the World Health Organization WHO listed it as a con

89
00:06:00,040 –> 00:06:04,000
trolled substance in nineteen eighty six, which led most countries

90
00:06:04,000 –> 00:06:08,319
and the original manufacturers to stop its legal production and distribution.

91
00:06:09,199 –> 00:06:12,839
According to Al Jazeran news report in late twenty twenty four,

92
00:06:13,279 –> 00:06:16,720
four days since the fall of Bishah al Assad’s regime

93
00:06:16,759 –> 00:06:21,000
in Syria, opposition fighters who have taken control of Damascus

94
00:06:21,000 –> 00:06:24,959
have uncovered large stashes of captagan, a narcotic substance that

95
00:06:25,040 –> 00:06:28,160
has long been mass produced in the country, so much

96
00:06:28,199 –> 00:06:31,800
so that it became almost synonymous with the nation’s removed leadership.

97
00:06:32,480 –> 00:06:36,160
Ahmed al Sharah, also referred to as Al Juleni, the

98
00:06:36,199 –> 00:06:39,879
top commander of the heat Tahir al shan ht S,

99
00:06:40,040 –> 00:06:43,279
the most powerful group among the rebels who have overthrown

100
00:06:43,360 –> 00:06:47,040
al Assad, has in recent days accused the former regime

101
00:06:47,120 –> 00:06:50,800
of turning Syria into the world’s leading source of captagan.

102
00:06:51,560 –> 00:06:55,480
He has promised to crack down on captagan manufacture and trade.

103
00:06:55,720 –> 00:07:00,319
An addictive amphetamine type stimulant, Captagon has been primary mealy

104
00:07:00,399 –> 00:07:03,399
produced in Syria in recent years and smuggled to the

105
00:07:03,399 –> 00:07:07,680
Gulf states that turned the narcotic substance into a bargaining

106
00:07:07,759 –> 00:07:10,040
chip for al Assad. In talks that led to the

107
00:07:10,120 –> 00:07:14,680
Arab League reinstating Syria’s membership last year as nations looked

108
00:07:14,680 –> 00:07:17,759
to curb the illicit drug trade. At a May one,

109
00:07:17,959 –> 00:07:21,279
twenty twenty three meeting of Arab foreign ministers in Amman,

110
00:07:21,720 –> 00:07:25,279
Damascus agreed to cooperate with Jordan and Iraq to identify

111
00:07:25,439 –> 00:07:29,240
sources of drug production and smuggling, according to a statement

112
00:07:29,279 –> 00:07:33,480
from Jordan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. A week later, a

113
00:07:33,560 –> 00:07:36,959
high profile Syrian drug smuggler and his family were killed

114
00:07:37,000 –> 00:07:40,519
in an air raid attributed to Jordan in southern Syria.

115
00:07:41,279 –> 00:07:44,959
Captagan was the brand name of a psychoactive medicine produced

116
00:07:45,000 –> 00:07:48,839
in the nineteen sixties by the German company Degusa Farmer Gruppy.

117
00:07:49,600 –> 00:07:52,920
It was mainly prescribed as a treatment for attention deficit

118
00:07:53,000 –> 00:07:58,800
disorder narcolexian as a central nervous system stimulant. Captagan tablets

119
00:07:58,839 –> 00:08:02,920
contained phenetothi, a synthetic drug of the ferinetula mine family,

120
00:08:03,000 –> 00:08:08,279
to which amphetamine also belongs. In nineteen eighty six, fenetathlne

121
00:08:08,360 –> 00:08:12,519
was included in Schedule two of that United Nations Convention

122
00:08:12,680 –> 00:08:17,800
on Psychotropic Substances nineteen seventy one, and most countries discontinued

123
00:08:17,839 –> 00:08:22,399
the use of captagon. The International Narcotics Control Boards said

124
00:08:22,399 –> 00:08:25,959
in twenty eleven that no country had produced phenetothlne since

125
00:08:26,000 –> 00:08:30,680
two thousand and nine, but production didn’t really stop, did it.

126
00:08:31,120 –> 00:08:34,720
As official production ceased, some of the remaining stocks were

127
00:08:34,720 –> 00:08:38,279
smuggled out of Eastern Europe, in particular Bulgaria, to the

128
00:08:38,320 –> 00:08:43,759
Middle East. Eventually, new counterfeit tablets labeled Captagon were produced

129
00:08:43,799 –> 00:08:47,000
in the nineteen nineties to early two thousands in Bulgaria,

130
00:08:47,440 –> 00:08:50,799
according to a twenty eighteen report by the European Monitoring

131
00:08:50,879 –> 00:08:54,399
Center for Drugs and Drugs Addiction. The drugs were then

132
00:08:54,480 –> 00:08:57,600
smuggled out of the country by Balkan and Turkish criminal

133
00:08:57,639 –> 00:09:02,399
networks to the Arabian Peninsula. Strict crackdowns on production by

134
00:09:02,440 –> 00:09:06,639
Turkish and Bulgarian authorities, which included the closure of eighteen

135
00:09:06,720 –> 00:09:11,600
mostly large scale laboratories involved in amphetamine synthesis, resulted in

136
00:09:11,639 –> 00:09:15,919
a drastic reduction in trade from the Balkans. In twenty eleven,

137
00:09:16,279 –> 00:09:20,559
after a brutal government crackdown on anti Assad protesters, Syria

138
00:09:20,600 –> 00:09:25,480
descended into civil war. Internationally isolated and racked by fighting,

139
00:09:25,919 –> 00:09:30,399
the country was plunged into an economic crisis. Although Damascus

140
00:09:30,399 –> 00:09:34,120
denied any involvement in the trade. Observers save production and

141
00:09:34,200 –> 00:09:37,559
smuggling of the drug brought in billions of dollars for Alasad,

142
00:09:38,000 –> 00:09:40,720
his associates and allies as they looked for an economic

143
00:09:40,799 –> 00:09:45,120
life line. According to a new Line’s Institute report, the

144
00:09:45,200 –> 00:09:49,440
now ejected Syrian government used local alliance structures with other

145
00:09:49,559 –> 00:09:53,080
armed groups such as Hesbola for technical and logistical support

146
00:09:53,120 –> 00:09:57,679
in captagon production and trafficking. Experts say most of global

147
00:09:57,720 –> 00:10:01,240
captagon production is now in Syria, with the wealthy Gulf

148
00:10:01,320 –> 00:10:05,559
States as the primary destination. Al Jazeera report ends in quotes.

149
00:10:06,360 –> 00:10:10,559
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ndl EA, in a

150
00:10:10,639 –> 00:10:14,759
news release signed and made available by its spokesperson Fermi

151
00:10:14,759 –> 00:10:18,960
Babefemi on Sunday, April twenty sixth, twenty twenty six, stated

152
00:10:19,000 –> 00:10:22,840
in quotes that barely five years after the National Drug

153
00:10:22,960 –> 00:10:27,600
Law Enforcement Agency nd l EA recorded the first seizure

154
00:10:27,639 –> 00:10:30,960
of the deadly terror drug Captagon in Africa at the

155
00:10:30,960 –> 00:10:34,840
Aparapus Seaport in Legos, operatives of the agency have again

156
00:10:34,879 –> 00:10:38,799
intercepted a consignment of the amphetamine substance in Quarra State.

157
00:10:39,639 –> 00:10:44,399
Captagon a tiny, highly addictive pill widely available across the

158
00:10:44,440 –> 00:10:48,559
Middle East. Produces a euphoric intensity and uses allowing them

159
00:10:48,600 –> 00:10:52,679
to stay awake for days, making them fearless and predisposes

160
00:10:52,720 –> 00:10:55,360
them to reckless action that puts the lives of people

161
00:10:55,399 –> 00:10:59,279
around them in jeopardy. Its production and sale are controlled

162
00:10:59,320 –> 00:11:02,399
by militias and large criminal groups linked to the Islamic

163
00:11:02,480 –> 00:11:06,240
State in Iraq and Syria. Issis as a means of

164
00:11:06,320 –> 00:11:09,679
generating funds for weapons and combatants and for use as

165
00:11:09,720 –> 00:11:14,000
a stimulant to keep them fighting. The latest seizure of Captagon,

166
00:11:14,240 –> 00:11:17,360
which street value costs as much as twenty five dollars

167
00:11:17,399 –> 00:11:20,120
a pill, was made on Tuesday, the twenty first of

168
00:11:20,159 –> 00:11:25,080
April twenty twenty six, when NDLA operatives on patrol along

169
00:11:25,159 –> 00:11:29,720
boad Sardu Road, Quia State intercepted a trailer conveying passengers.

170
00:11:30,519 –> 00:11:34,000
A search conducted on one of the passengers, thirty three

171
00:11:34,080 –> 00:11:37,000
year old Nasiru Muzu, led to the recovery of ten

172
00:11:37,080 –> 00:11:40,679
packs of Captagan consisting of ten thousand pills and nine

173
00:11:40,720 –> 00:11:44,000
packets of tapent to doll two hundred and fifty milligrams.

174
00:11:44,720 –> 00:11:48,440
In another interdiction operation at the Bode Sardu patrol point

175
00:11:48,960 –> 00:11:52,960
NDLA offices on Friday, the twenty fourth of April intercepted

176
00:11:52,960 –> 00:11:56,840
a trailer marked our M Y seventy XA. A search

177
00:11:56,879 –> 00:11:59,240
of the truck led to the recovery of one hundred

178
00:11:59,279 –> 00:12:03,519
and fifty five thousand, nine hundred capsules of tramidol, six

179
00:12:03,600 –> 00:12:08,039
thousand ampules of tramidol injection, three thousand tablets of county

180
00:12:08,120 –> 00:12:12,000
kodomol and nine thousand tablets of bromerzepim concealed in a

181
00:12:12,039 –> 00:12:16,399
false compartment constructed under the trailer. A twenty four year

182
00:12:16,399 –> 00:12:20,080
old suspect, aminu Isa, has been taken into custody in

183
00:12:20,120 –> 00:12:25,240
connection with the seizure. Meanwhile, ndl EA Operatives in Oyo’s

184
00:12:25,240 –> 00:12:28,559
State on Tuesday the twenty first of April intercepted a

185
00:12:28,600 –> 00:12:33,080
commercial bus with registration number MNA nine hundred and sixty

186
00:12:33,120 –> 00:12:37,759
three zen y but Akonyele Longabaden Oyo Expressway wile en

187
00:12:38,600 –> 00:12:42,879
route Sokoto. A thirty three year old passenger as Prince Ameka,

188
00:12:43,039 –> 00:12:45,919
was brought down from the vehicle and taken for body scan,

189
00:12:46,360 –> 00:12:50,679
which result confirmed ingestion of illicit drug. The suspect, who

190
00:12:50,720 –> 00:12:54,159
claims to be a businessman in Sokoto, was subsequently placed

191
00:12:54,240 –> 00:12:58,000
under close excretion observation. During which he excreted a total

192
00:12:58,039 –> 00:13:01,519
of forty five forty five pellets of cocaine with a

193
00:13:01,559 –> 00:13:04,840
total weight of one point zero four three kilograms in

194
00:13:04,919 –> 00:13:09,200
three excretions. The decision to travel by road to Sokoto

195
00:13:09,320 –> 00:13:11,759
with the illicit drug in his stomach was to evade

196
00:13:11,759 –> 00:13:14,759
detection by n d l EA at the airport, while

197
00:13:14,879 –> 00:13:19,440
further investigation reveals that upon arrival in Sokoto, the suspect

198
00:13:19,559 –> 00:13:22,240
was to excrete the pellets, rest for a few days

199
00:13:22,519 –> 00:13:25,919
and subsequently re ingest the substances to continue the journey

200
00:13:25,960 –> 00:13:29,519
through the trans Saharan routes, with Algeria as a transit

201
00:13:29,559 –> 00:13:33,759
point and possible final destination in Europe. In Edo State,

202
00:13:34,240 –> 00:13:38,679
ndl e A offices on patrol along Benine Legos Expressway

203
00:13:38,720 –> 00:13:42,559
on Saturday twenty five h April intercepted a truck marked

204
00:13:42,679 –> 00:13:46,679
NLC one hundred and forty six f C conveying one million,

205
00:13:46,759 –> 00:13:50,879
one hundred and ninety six thousand pills of pharmaceutical opioids,

206
00:13:51,200 –> 00:13:55,639
among others. Two suspects oss A J L G Binnibo

207
00:13:56,080 –> 00:14:00,480
forty three and only G Manik forty four, were upended

208
00:14:00,480 –> 00:14:03,799
in connection with the seizure of the consignments heading to Innisa,

209
00:14:04,120 –> 00:14:08,919
an Amber State, while a suspect, Rashid Ibuoo forty, was

210
00:14:09,039 –> 00:14:12,320
arrested at Mile two Expressway in Lagos on Saturday, the

211
00:14:12,360 –> 00:14:16,159
twenty fifth of April, conveying eight hundred and ten kilograms

212
00:14:16,159 –> 00:14:21,399
of Arizona, a strain of cannabis. Another suspect, Muktobello thirty five,

213
00:14:21,960 –> 00:14:25,679
was nabbed by ndl EA operatives on Wednesday, the twenty

214
00:14:25,720 –> 00:14:30,200
second of April at Massau Road, Azare, Katagan Local Government Area,

215
00:14:30,559 –> 00:14:33,360
Bauchi State, with two hundred and eighty eight blocks of

216
00:14:33,399 –> 00:14:37,159
skunk weighing one hundred and fifty four point five kilograms.

217
00:14:37,879 –> 00:14:40,559
In a Kitty State, a total of four hundred and

218
00:14:40,600 –> 00:14:44,039
sixty six point eight kilograms of skunk were recovered from

219
00:14:44,039 –> 00:14:47,600
the house of a suspect lair John Matthew fifty six

220
00:14:48,080 –> 00:14:51,480
at Alaro Street, Simboda, Kitty, from where he planned to

221
00:14:51,480 –> 00:14:55,799
transportum to Yola Adamar was State, while twenty thousand kilograms

222
00:14:55,799 –> 00:14:59,399
of the same psychoactive substance were destroyed on eight hectares

223
00:14:59,440 –> 00:15:03,840
of farmland Inuyinga Community, a Camber Local Government area, Cross

224
00:15:03,960 –> 00:15:06,759
River State. On Saturday, the twenty fifth of April when

225
00:15:06,879 –> 00:15:11,399
NDLA offices supported by soldiers raided the community and recovered

226
00:15:11,440 –> 00:15:16,120
one hundred and seventy kilograms of processed cannabis. Three hundred

227
00:15:16,120 –> 00:15:19,639
and ninety four three hundred and ninety four pieces of

228
00:15:19,720 –> 00:15:24,159
ied components were seized from a suspect, Muhammad Aliu twenty

229
00:15:24,200 –> 00:15:29,279
six by NDLA operatives on patrol along Contegora Zuru Road,

230
00:15:29,679 –> 00:15:33,360
Niger State on Wednesday, the twenty second of April. He

231
00:15:33,519 –> 00:15:37,039
was conveying the ied materials in a red Toyota car

232
00:15:37,039 –> 00:15:40,840
with registration number KNT six hundred and seventeen air to

233
00:15:40,919 –> 00:15:45,799
Shadadi Mariga Local Government area. The suspect and exhibit are

234
00:15:45,840 –> 00:15:50,039
to be transferred to the relevant security agency for further investigation.

235
00:15:50,960 –> 00:15:54,360
With the same zeal commands and formations of the agency

236
00:15:54,399 –> 00:15:58,159
across the country continued their war against drug abuse while

237
00:15:58,159 –> 00:16:04,120
the sensitization activity in schools, worship centers, workplaces and communities

238
00:16:04,120 –> 00:16:08,759
among others in the past week. These include Wada Enlightenment

239
00:16:08,840 –> 00:16:13,279
lecture for students and staff of Malam Soliso Islamic School, Paiko,

240
00:16:13,720 –> 00:16:18,200
Nijer State, Madarasatchel Abdul Rahm and Bin alf latahafizl Quran

241
00:16:18,759 –> 00:16:24,679
darasal Islamir Badawa, Nasarawa Local Government Area, Karno Sani, Zango,

242
00:16:24,759 –> 00:16:29,679
Dara Model Primary School, Zango, Katsina and members of community

243
00:16:29,720 –> 00:16:34,279
development associations the Dagri Local Government Area, Lagos, while the

244
00:16:34,360 –> 00:16:37,759
Zonal Commander Zone four Command of n d l EA

245
00:16:38,279 –> 00:16:42,360
ac G and bridgid Viashiyama led other senior offices of

246
00:16:42,440 –> 00:16:45,879
the zone on a Wada advocacy visit to Nasarawa State

247
00:16:45,960 –> 00:16:51,799
Governor Engineer Abdullahisule, among others. While commending the offices and

248
00:16:51,919 –> 00:16:57,799
men of Khwara Yo Edo, Cross River, Bauchi, Akitty, Niger

249
00:16:57,840 –> 00:17:01,200
and Lagos commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures.

250
00:17:01,519 –> 00:17:07,119
Chairman Chief Executive Officer of nd LA, Brigadier General Mohammad

251
00:17:07,119 –> 00:17:11,519
Babamawa Retired, noted the drug’s supply reduction efforts balanced with

252
00:17:11,640 –> 00:17:15,680
wider sensitization activities, while he charged them and their compatriots

253
00:17:15,720 –> 00:17:19,599
across the country to maintain the current tempo. He commended

254
00:17:19,640 –> 00:17:24,480
the tactical precision of ndl EA operatives following the interception

255
00:17:24,640 –> 00:17:28,640
of ten thousand pills of Captagon in Quarra State, noting

256
00:17:28,680 –> 00:17:31,119
that the bust is a major blow to drug syndicates

257
00:17:31,160 –> 00:17:34,559
attempting to revive a pipeline that has been largely dormant

258
00:17:34,640 –> 00:17:38,119
since the landmark seizure at the Apaper’s seaport in Lagos

259
00:17:38,240 –> 00:17:42,079
five years ago. Mawa described the seizure as a wake

260
00:17:42,160 –> 00:17:46,200
up call, noting that captaggan, a potent amphetamine often lin

261
00:17:46,359 –> 00:17:49,839
tr insurgent groups for its ability to inhibit fear and fatigue,

262
00:17:50,160 –> 00:17:54,240
remains a target for traffickers looking to fuel insecurity. We

263
00:17:54,319 –> 00:17:57,599
are not just seizing pills. We are disrupting the fuel

264
00:17:57,640 –> 00:18:01,359
that powers violence in our communities. Our operatives remain on

265
00:18:01,480 –> 00:18:05,039
high alert across all frontiers to ensure this illicit trade

266
00:18:05,119 –> 00:18:11,960
finds no foothold, he stated. OSAs wand bring in you

267
00:18:12,200 –> 00:18:14,200
bring nie in a mortgage is alware.