NDLEA raids “skuchies” factory in Ibadan

VOICE AIR MEDIA, News Update

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, had raided a “skuchies’’ factory operated by a 28-year-old at Moniya.

VAM News reports that skuchies is a Chapman drink laced with hard drugs.

NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, made this disclosure on Sunday in Abuja, saying that 76.6kg of Indian hemp, 134gm of tramadol, 93gm of Rophynol and 50 litres of skuchies were recovered from the factory.

According to him, in Ondo State, NDLEA arrested four drugs suspects in a hotel off Ado-Ekiti Road, Akure, on Jan. 12 with 524.5kg Indian hemp.

He added that NDLEA nabbed a 26-year-old man at Ala Forest, Akure, and recovered 293.5kg of Indian hemp and a Dane gun from him.

NDLEA also arrested a 67-year-old man at Otuo, Owan East Local Government Area of Edo on January 11, with 454 blocks of Indian hemp weighing 311kg loaded in his Lexus salon car.

Babafemi stated also that NDLEA nabbed a 43-year-old man on Jan. 9 at Ayangba in Dekina Local Government Area of Kogi.

“He was in possession of 43 blocks of compressed Indian hemp, weighing 22kg and three pinches of methamphetamine,” the NDLEA’s spokesman stated.