The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has confiscated four tonnes of various illicit drugs between June 2024 and June 2025 in Adamawa.

Mr Aliyu Abubakar, the state’s NDLEA Commander, stated this at a news conference as part of activities to mark the 2025 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Yola on Wednesday.

“The sum of N1,213,875 was forfeited to the Federal Government from proceeds of crime, and deposited in the Treasury Single Account (TSA),” Abubakar said.

The commandant said that 583 drug related offenders were arrested within the period under review.

He said the command also secured convictions of 225 drug offenders who were sentenced to various terms imprisonment.

Abubakar also said that the command rehabilitated and treated over 53 drug dependents, comprising 51 males and two females.

The commander further said that the agency had initiated a programme tagged Prevention Ambassadors aimed at training 1,000 secondary school teachers and others to join its fight against drug abuse.

Also in Abia, NDLEA, Abia State Command, announced that it has seized about one million and ninety four kilograms (1.94 million) of illicit drugs, and arrested two 222 suspects in one year.

Acting Commander of NDLEA in the state, Chigbu Odoemelam Chilee, said despite the seizures and arrest, the command has intensified efforts in preventing sales and consumption of illicit drugs in the state.

The acting NDLEA Commander said that the problem of illicit drugs in Abia cannot be overemphasized, stressing that, the number of arrest, seizure, and people coming for rehabilitation, showed that Abia State faces a huge challenge in drug abuse and trafficking.

“For the past one year, we’ve seized one million and ninety four kilograms of illicit drugs. These drugs include cannabis, sativa, heroin, cocaine, methamphetamine, diazepam, codeine, etc. The most prevalent here is methamphetamine called mkpurummiri, in our local parlance.”

The Commander said that NDLEA Abia State, just like any other agencies, has challenges, but stated that they were surmounting all challenges as they come.