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Hard drugs are being sold in the camp for internally displaced persons in Dikwa, Borno state, the Nigeria Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Borno Command, has said.

The agency said it arrested two men for allegedly peddling cocaine in the camp.

Ona Ogilegwu, commander of the Borno command, said in Maiduguri on Sunday that one of the suspects, a 48-year-old man, was arrested on February 27 in the camp.

He said that other illicit substances, including cannabis sativa, rophenol, and diazepam, were found on the drug peddler.

“The criminal disguised himself as an officer of NDLEA in the IDP camp in order to sell the illicit drugs,” he said.

“After surveillance by men of the command, we decided to buy the hard drugs from him to confirm that he was selling the drugs. We apprehended him as he taught we were coming to buy in large quantity.”

Ogilegwu said that the command also arrested a 32-year-old man, who was similarly in possession of other hard drugs in the same IDP camp.

“I will tell you that the level of drug intake among men and women in IDP camps is beyond imagination,” he said.

“We have received several reports and we have sent our men to the 28 camps in the state to mop up all nefarious activities there.”