After months of intelligence gathering and painstaking surveillance, operatives of the Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), have smashed two main cross-border drug trafficking syndicates with cocaine and opioids price billions of naira recovered from them whereas six leaders of the cartels had been arrested in numerous elements of the nation.
The syndicates, based on a press release by the Director, Media & Advocacy of the company, Femi Babafemi, comprise Nigerians primarily based in Mubi, Adamawa State; Onitsha, Anambra State, and Lagos State in addition to Cameroonians got here beneath NDLEA radar after they had been suspected of being main suppliers of medicine to terror teams working in Nigeria and Cameroon.
Leaders of the syndicates to this point arrested embody: Ibrahim Bawuro, Najib Ibrahim, Ibrahim Umar, Nelson Udechukwu Anayo, Ezeh Amaechi Martin and Adejumo Elijah Ishola. Intelligence gathered revealed that some psychoactive substances together with tramadol had been usually sourced by Ibrahim Bawuro and Ibrahim Najib from a infamous drug vendor in Onitsha: Nelson Udechukwu Anayo and thereafter packed and hid in autos within the premises of Ezeh Amaechi Martin, an affiliate of Udechukwu.
The duo of Ibrahim Bawuro and Ibrahim Najib will thereafter transport the medicine from Onitsha to Yola and subsequently to different elements of the North and Cameroon in specifically construct- ed false compartments of autos, which journey from the East to the North at night time. On October 7,
Bawuro and Najib had been trailed from Onitsha the place that they had gone to purchase one other consignment and ultimately arrested in Taraba the next day, October 8, whereas a complete of 276,500 tablets of tramadol had been recovered from a Toyota Avensis saloon automobile marked DKA 57 TT, which they deserted on the Jalingo-Yola Expressway once they seen NDLEA operatives had been on their path.
Comply with up operations, Babafemi mentioned, had been subsequently carried out in Delta and Anambra States the place Ezeh Amaechi Martin and Udechukwu Nelson Anayo had been arrested by operatives of the NDLEA Directorate of Intelligence, which coordinated the entire effort with their counterparts in Taraba, Adamawa, Delta and Anambra.
One other chief of a distinct syndicate, Adejumo Elijah Ishola, 37, was arrested by operatives of a particular operation unit of the Company on Tuesday, November 5, at Seme border in Lagos on his method from Ghana with 3.3 kilograms of cocaine and 600grams of artificial hashish. This adopted months of intelligence and surveillance on his cross-border prison actions.
In the meantime, NDLEA operatives in Apapa seaport Lagos on Wednesday, November 6, intercepted 31,750,000, tablets of 240mg Voltron, a managed opioid, packaged and hid in a container imported from India, as diclofenac sodium 100mg tablets. The invention was made throughout a joint examination of the container with males of Customs Service and different safety businesses.
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