NDLEA busts businessman, family, friend running drug network in Lagos
In a sweeping crackdown on narcotics trafficking, operatives of the Nationwide Drug Law Enforcement Company (NDLEA) be pleased arrested a Lagos-essentially essentially essentially based businessman, his wife, their two daughters, and a family pal for allegedly running a indispensable illicit drug distribution community within the metropolis.
The suspects, Ajah Johnson Uchenna, his wife Rosemary, daughters Stella and Ngozi, and their companion Okoro Elijah, had been all taken into custody after a series of coordinated operations that uncovered the family’s deep involvement within the skunk change.
The company’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a assertion on Sunday, acknowledged the operation began with a tip-off that led to the arrest of the couple on June 13 by operatives of the Department of Hiss Providers and products (DSS) within the Ojo rental of Lagos. They had been consequently of this truth handed over to the NDLEA alongside with 277.5 kilograms of hashish (commonly known as skunk).
“While quiet in custody and below investigation, NDLEA got credible intelligence that the family’s drug operations had been quiet ongoing,” Babafemi acknowledged.
Performing on the tip, NDLEA operatives raided the family’s device and packing retailer on July 1, the place they uncovered a further 231 kilograms of skunk. In the course of this be aware-up raid, the daughters, Ngozi and Blessing Uchenna, and family pal Elijah had been arrested for continuing the illegal change within the absence of the oldsters.
In a separate construction, NDLEA intercepted parcels of cocaine hid inside of lipstick circumstances and property title documents, trip for the UK and Saudi Arabia, respectively. The illicit cargo used to be seized at a logistics company in Lagos on July 3 by NDLEA’s Directorate of Operations and Total Investigation.
One other operation at Lagos airport led to the interception of 52 unfounded traveller’s cheques worth 17.7 million Australian greenbacks, hidden inside of kids’s books and headed to Malaysia by the usage of Turkish Airlines. A freight agent, Bolarinwa Saheed, used to be arrested and handed over to the Economic and Monetary Crimes Commission (EFCC) for additional investigation.
The NDLEA has vowed to intensify its clampdown on drug cartels, without reference to how smartly disguised or linked they are, reaffirming its commitment to stemming the tide of drug abuse and trafficking across Nigeria.
