The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA), has intercepted drug syndicates in an try to export massive consignments of cocaine, methamphetamine and opioids by way of the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos and the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport (NAIA), Abuja.
The Company’s Spokesperson, Mr. Femi Babafemi, in a press release yesterday stated the medication have been going to United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey and Qatar earlier than they have been thwarted by operatives of the company. Babafemi stated the medication was intercepted in a sequence of intelligence led operations and recovered the illicit medication and arrested the masterminds.
A complete of 13 parcels of cocaine weighing 4.40kg cocaine going to the UK through Frankfurt on a Lufthansa Airways flight have been intercepted by NDLEA officers on the export shed of the Lagos airport on November 5, whereas a businessman linked to the consignment, Ekeocha Anayo Nelson, was tracked and arrested on November 8.
He stated a bid by one other businessman, Adegbite Solomon (aka Obama) to export 7,800 capsules of tramadol, 180 tablets of rohypnol, and 60 bottles of codeine to Italy was additionally foiled on the departure corridor of the Lagos airport on Monday November 11, when NDLEA operatives arrested him after recovering the opioids hid in meals and different objects whereas trying to board an Ethiopian Airways flight to Italy.
He claimed to have travelled to Europe by way of the Mediterranean Sea and earned a dwelling as a road beggar earlier than delving into logistics enterprise.
Additionally associated is the arrest of one other businessman, Anoke Kingsley Roomy with 1,100 capsules of tramadol 225mg hidden in his baggage whereas trying to board his Ethiopian Airways flight going to Istanbul, Turkey on the terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on Friday, November 15.
Following credible intelligence, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and Normal Investigation (DOGI) and their counterparts from the FCT Command of the Company on Friday, November 15, raided a lodge room on the Federal Housing Authority Property, Lugbe, Abuja, the place they arrested two suspects: Omeh Uchenna Jude, 36, and Anene Valentine Chigozie, 34. Recovered from them was 1.8kg methamphetamine, which they have been getting ready to journey with to Qatar.
One other suspect, Akande Moruf Olasunkanmi, was arrested with 1.8kg methamphetamine by operatives of a Particular Operations Unit in NDLEA at his 9, Durojaiye Avenue, Lawanson space of Surulere, Lagos house after weeks of intelligence and surveillance.
In one other intelligence led operation, officers of an NDLEA process pressure on Saturday November 16, foiled the try by a trans-border trafficker, Emmanuel Okechukwu Okeke to smuggle 50,000 capsules of tramadol 225mg from Ghana into Lagos.
The capsules have been hid within the physique compartments of a Toyota Hummer Bus belonging to GUO Transport Firm, pushed by the suspect. The automobile was intercepted at Ijanikin space of the Lagos-Badagry Expressway whereas coming from Ghana.
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