Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have raided and sealed Diplomatic Suite Hotel, Asokoro, Abuja, in a joint operation with men of the Department of State Services, DSS, to stop a cannabis party and the launch of a suspected new psychoactive drink.
The Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement he issued on Thursday.
He said about 200 attendees, including three young ladies, who organised the hemp party were already being profiled and interviewed while bottles of the new drink had been taken for lab analysis.
The hotel, the spokesman said, was raided at about 8:18pm on Wednesday, April 20, following actionable intelligence that some youths were planning to hold a hemp party at the hotel.
Quantities of cannabis sativa were recovered from the pockets and bags of those arrested at the hemp party.
The audacious party was said to be part of attempts by some elements to create a drug subculture in the Nigerian social space.
The NDLEA vowed however to continue to work with other security agencies and relevant stakeholders to ensure abuse of illicit substances was not allowed to get entrenched in the country under any guise.
