ILLICIT DRUGS: NDLEA INTERCEPTS MET IN LAGOS
10-09-23
By Sadiq Aminu Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tins of tomato paste and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes, meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
While the skunk in tomato pastes consignment weighing 20.00 kilograms was intercepted at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja, the meth shipment with a gross weight of 1.60kg was seized at a courier company in Lagos.
The spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi in a statement says, another consignment of 556 grams of Canadian Loud sent from Canada to one Tunji Adebayo in Ikorodu, Lagos was also intercepted by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms.
According to him, though Adebayo was not home when operatives visited his house at 52, Aina Atoloye street, Ikorodu, he however directed his younger brother to sign for the package on his behalf and the brother was promptly arrested.
Speaking on other arrests, Mr. Babafemi said, NDLEA operatives raided the enclave of a notorious drug lord in Akala, Mushin, Lagos, Abdul Rauf (aka ‘Na God’) where 1,101kgs of Ghanaian Loud were recovered and three suspects arrested while the wanted kingpin remains at large.
While in Kogi, 22-year-old Agada Emmanuel was arrested with 77.400kgs cannabis along Okene – Lokoja – Abuja expressway while a total of 369,980 pills of opioids were also recovered on the same road and the suspect linked to the seizure, Kabiru Ahmad Abdullahi was arrested in a follow up operation in Gombe state.
No fewer than 399 pieces of improvised explosive devices were recovered by NDLEA operatives from one Asana Oluwagbenga Leke, 39, along Mokwa-Jebba road.
In his statement, the suspect said the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadan to be delivered to someone in Kaduna.
Babafemi said, the suspect and exhibits have since been transferred to the military authorities in Niger state.