The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a infamous drug kingpin, Ajetsibo Emami, popularly generally known as ‘Warri Kinsman,’ dismantling his drug trafficking community in a three-day operation that led to the arrest of three different suspects in Lagos.
In accordance with a press release launched on Sunday by the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Emami was arrested on Saturday, June 28, within the Ikeja space of Lagos. The operatives recovered 24 jumbo luggage containing 681 pouches of Canadian Loud, a potent pressure of hashish, weighing 414.2 kilograms.
The operation adopted credible intelligence that Emami deliberate to maneuver the cargo to Lekki, from the place it might be distributed throughout Lagos and to different components of the nation.
In a separate case, a Lagos-based businessman, Ajah Johnson Uchenna, his spouse, Rosemary Uchenna, their daughters, Stella and Ngozi Uchenna, and a household buddy, Okoro Elijah, have been arrested for working a serious illicit drug distribution community.
The couple was initially arrested by operatives of the Division of State Companies (DSS) on Friday, June 13, within the Ojo space and handed over to the NDLEA together with 277.5kg of hashish (skunk). Throughout additional investigations, the NDLEA raided the couple’s residence and a storage facility on Tuesday, July 1, the place a further 231kg of hashish was recovered.
In the course of the second raid, three people—daughters Ngozi and Blessing Uchenna, and household buddy Elijah—have been apprehended whereas allegedly working the illicit enterprise within the absence of the arrested couple.
In the meantime, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, NDLEA operatives on Wednesday, July 2, intercepted a suspected drug courier, Aburemi Hysent, a frequent flyer who reportedly smuggles items between Nigeria and Italy. He was caught with 7,660 tablets of tramadol (225mg and 200mg) hid in meals objects. He admitted he was to be paid €800 for delivering the consignment to Italy.
In one other interdiction operation at MMIA, NDLEA operatives on Friday, July 4, seized 52 items of suspected counterfeit travellers’ cheques price AUD 17.7 million, hid in youngsters’s books and sure for Malaysia by way of Istanbul on a Turkish Airways flight. A freight agent, Bolarinwa Saheed, has been arrested and might be handed over to the Financial and Monetary Crimes Fee (EFCC) for additional investigation.
On the Seme border in Badagry, operatives recovered 718 giant wraps of skunk weighing 359kg from a retailer within the Baba-Pupa space on Saturday, July 5. Equally, on the Okene–Lokoja freeway, NDLEA officers intercepted 10,000 tablets of tramadol (225mg), co-codamol, and 1.050kg of Colorado, an artificial pressure of hashish.
Observe-up operations led to the arrest of the suspected house owners of the waybilled consignments—Chinedu Odo, Samuel Ogbonna, and Kingsley Ugaji—at Jabi Park, Abuja.
Commending the operatives for his or her efforts, NDLEA Chairman and Chief Government Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), praised all instructions throughout the nation for sustaining a strategic stability between drug provide discount and drug demand discount within the company’s struggle towards narcotics.
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