Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) have intercepted giant consignments of codeine-based syrup and Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish value over N2,185,000,000.00 in road worth on the Port Harcourt seaports, Onne and the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos State.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi in a press release on Sunday mentioned, with the cooperation of different safety businesses on Friday Could 31, 2024, operatives intercepted a big consignment of Loud, packed in eight suitcases, containing 320 parcels with a complete weight of 164.50kg of the robust psychoactive substance coming from Canada on a KLM flight by way of Amsterdam, Netherlands on the Lagos airport.
The consignment estimated to be value N960,000,000.00, which was introduced in by a passenger, Ughenu Nnaife Francis was found on the E-Arrival Corridor of the airport by personnel of NDLEA, Customs and different safety businesses throughout a joint search operation whereas the suspect was trying to smuggle the suitcases out of the corridor.
Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect is resident in Germany however travelled to Toronto, Canada to move the drug to Nigeria.
The NDLEA disclosed that, throughout his interview, the suspect claimed that he was recruited as a mule to convey the drug to Nigeria for an agreed price of N6million.
On the Port Harcourt Ports Advanced, NDLEA operatives on Monday Could 27, intercepted a container marked TEMU 6807401 imported from India enroute C to C bonded terminal in Enugu.
Throughout a joint examination of the container by NDLEA, Customs and different safety businesses, 1,750 cartons of codeine weighing 26,250kg, containing 175,000 bottles of the opioid value N1,225,000,000, in road worth had been found.
In Abuja, a 25-year-old girl, Blessing Thomas, was arrested with 1.0kg methamphetamine by NDLEA operatives on patrol alongside Kwali – Gwagwalada expressway on Friday thirty first Could whereas travelling in a industrial bus from Lagos to Yola, Adamawa State.
In the identical vein, operatives in Nasarawa State on Wednesday, Could 29, nabbed a 70-year-old grandfather, Muhammadu Ibrahim, with 57.2kg hashish in Lafia, the state capital.
Two suspects – Suleiman Kazeem, 35, and Sunday Gbenga, 20, had been arrested when NDLEA officers raided Ara Forest, Ara-Ekiti in Ekiti State the place they recovered 426 kilograms of hashish sativa already processed and packed in large sacks.
Operatives of the anti-narcotic company additionally destroyed over 4,000kg of identical substance on 1.66 hectares of farmland on Thursday, Could 30 within the forest.