NDLEA seizes Captagon drug in Kwara

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says its operatives have intercepted a consignment of the stimulant drug Captagon in Kwara State, alongside other seizures recorded in separate operations across the country.

This comes barely five years after the agency recorded the first seizure of Captagon in Africa at the Apapa Port in Lagos.

Captagon is a highly addictive amphetamine-type stimulant widely abused in parts of the Middle East.

According to the NDLEA, the drug produces intense euphoria, suppresses fatigue, and can keep users awake for days while reducing fear and increasing reckless behaviour.

The agency also linked its “production and sale to militias and large criminal groups linked to the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria”, which it said use it as a “means of generating funds for weapons and combatants, and for use as a stimulant to keep them fighting.”