NDLEA intercepts cocaine in lipsticks, AU$17.7m cheques, tramadol, cannabis nationwide
The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has reported the interception of a pair of drug shipments and the arrest of several folks all for trafficking networks across the nation in a series of operations over the past week.
In response to a assertion launched on Sunday by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, operatives of the Directorate of Operations and Total Investigation intercepted two consignments of cocaine hidden inner particular person goods supposed for export thru a courier company in Lagos.
The seizures incorporated 420 grams of cocaine hid in 84 female lipsticks destined for the United Kingdom and 280 grams hidden inner a Certificate of Occupancy being shipped to Saudi Arabia.
In a separate operation, NDLEA operatives arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Ajetsibo Emami, generally identified as “Warri Kinsman,” following a 3-day surveillance exercise that dismantled his alleged distribution network.
The operation ended in the confiscation of 24 jumbo baggage containing 681 pouches of “Canadian Loud,” a variant of hashish weighing over 414 kilograms. The agency acknowledged the seizure turned into made as the shipment turned into being moved from Ikeja to Lekki for additional distribution.
Extra investigations in Lagos additionally ended in the detention of businessman Ajah Johnson Uchenna, his wife Rosemary, their daughters Stella and Ngozi, and a family pal, Okoro Elijah. The agency acknowledged the five suspects are linked to a most main illicit drug distribution ring.
Preliminary arrests by the Department of Disclose Products and services (DSS) ended in the invention of 277.5 kilograms of hashish. A subsequent raid on the family’s premises yielded an additional 231 kilograms, with contributors of the family allegedly continuing the industry within the couple’s absence.
At the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, Lagos, a frequent traveller, Aburemi Hysent, turned into apprehended with 7,660 pills of Tramadol hidden inner meals objects he turned into transporting to Italy. He reportedly steered investigators he turned into promised €800 for the provision.
Additionally at the Lagos airport, NDLEA agents intercepted 52 pieces of travellers’ cheques price 17.7 million Australian dollars hid inner children’s books. The shipment, en route to Malaysia thru Istanbul on a Turkish Airways flight, turned into linked to a freight agent, Bolarinwa Saheed, who's now in custody. The cheques were handed over to the Economic and Financial Crimes Price (EFCC) for additional investigation.
Extra enforcement actions had been reported in different states: at Seme border in Lagos, 718 balls of hashish weighing 359 kilograms had been recovered from a store; on the Okene-Lokoja twin carriageway, NDLEA intercepted 10,000 pills of Tramadol and Co-codamol, along with over 1kg of man-made hashish. Apply-up operations ended in the arrest of Chinedu Odo, Samuel Ogbonna, and Kingsley Ugaji in Abuja.
In Osun Disclose, three various operations ended in the recovery of tall quantities of opioids, including over forty eight,000 pills from a medicines store in Ile-Ife and additional seizures from a vulcaniser’s workshop in Osogbo.
A tall hashish farmland spanning over 9.6 hectares turned into destroyed at Oke-Ila wooded field in Osun, with seven suspects apprehended at the positioning.
In Borno and Kano, an entire of 619 kilograms of hashish had been seized, while arrests had been additionally made along the Abuja-Kaduna freeway and in states including Sokoto, Kebbi, Taraba, Edo, and Fallacious River.
One amongst the older suspects taken into custody turned into 78-twelve months-venerable Mike Abeng, arrested in Fallacious River with over 14kg of skunk and Tramadol.
NDLEA additionally celebrated its persisted public sensitisation below the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) initiative. Lectures and neighborhood awareness actions had been held in colleges and communities across Lagos, Enugu, Katsina, and Borno States in some unspecified time in the future of the week.
NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the agency’s personnel for their “balanced methodology to provide and quiz reduction,” praising their vigilance and coordination across a pair of commands.
He reiterated the agency’s form out strengthening interdiction and public awareness to strive against the nation’s drug trafficking challenges.
