Operatives the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos on October 25, raided the Igbo – Igunuko shrine, located at the Alfa Beach, Ajah, where jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,760kg were recovered.
Three suspects, Gbenga Abiodun, Sunday Abiodun and Ademola Oyelakin, caught with 770kg were arrested along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
Also, the operatives have intercepted consignments of opioids concealed in soles of shoes and hair attachments heading to the United States, United Kingdom and Cyprus with three courier companies at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos.
The agency through the Director of Media Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, over the weekend stated that, a total of 2,118 pills of tramadol concealed in soles of 13 pairs of shoes going to Cyprus were seized at the export shed of the Lagos airport on October 12, 2024 and additional 380 tablets were recovered from the home of the sender, Okenwa Kelvin Uchenna.
“During a follow up operation in Enugu on October 24, a cash of N968, 880 and a Toyota Avalon car marked UWN 389 AS, were also recovered from the suspect at the time of his arrest”
“Not less than 293 ampoules of promethazine and pentazocine injection as well as 1.690kg cannabis and tramadol tablets concealed in hair attachments and soles of shoes going to the United States, United Kingdom and Oman were intercepted at three courier firms by the NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, (DOGI) in Lagos on October 24.”
In the same vein, a total of N26, 250, 000 million pills of tramadol as well as N508,400 bottles of codeine based syrup worth N16, 683, 800,000 in street value were intercepted by the operatives during 100 percent joint examination of watch-listed containers with men of Customs Service and other security agencies at the Tincan port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port, Onne, Rivers state between October 22 and 23, 2024.
Other illicit consignments intercepted during the joint inspection of the containers include 10 million tablets of Toradol Benzhexol and 28 plastic drums of methamphetamie weighing 700kg at Tincan and Onne respectively.
While 56 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 28kg were also recovered from a container that arrived the Lagos port from Canada. A suspect, Tsolaye Eburajolo, 40, was arrested at Ago Palace area of Okota Lagos in connection with the cannabis seizure while a bribe of N10million paid NDLEA officers to free the suspect has been kept as part of the exhibits for the prosecution of the case.
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