 A joint security operation led by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency and DLA has dislodged open markets for illicit drugs across a Damawa state. The raid which started at the notorious Ngorore drug market saw operatives confiscating a three-bedroom bungalow used to store assorted narcotics. Fifty-five persons were apprehended in connection with various illicit drug offences just as a total of 258,469 kilograms of banned substances were seized. On the 9th of November, the team went to the Northern Senatorial Zones and raided Song, Gombe, Hong, Uba, Michika and Mubi where a total of 19 suspects were picked up with various substances of abuse from six dealers. An abaddon seizure, given the total of 0.209 kilograms of tramadol, 0.040 of dazapam and abaddon seizure of 2.250 kilograms of cannabis sativa. From the list and half year from the dealers, we have almost about six dealers that were picked and these six dealers are to be prosecuted at the federal high court.