Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Lagos on Friday, October 25, busted the Igbo–Igunuko shrine, located at the Alfa Beach, Ajah, where jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 2,760kgs were recovered and two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun, and Sunday Abiodun arrested.
According to a statement by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi in Abuja on Sunday, another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also arrested the same day with 770kgs of the same psychoactive substance along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.A total of 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol, and diazepam, as well as 64 bottles of codeine syrup, were recovered from the underground storage a suspect, Muhammad Warnos Abdullahi, dug in his bedroom at Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos when NDLEA officers raided his home on Friday 25th October.
The suspect dug the illicit drug storage deep in his room, covered it with padlocked iron slate and a rug, and then put his mattress on top to avoid detection.
Not less than 293 ampoules of promethazine and pentazocine injection as well as 1.690kgs cannabis and tramadol tablets concealed in hair attachments and soles of shoes going to the United States, United Kingdom, and Oman were intercepted at three courier firms by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI), in Lagos on Thursday 24th October.
In Plateau State, a suspect, Fadan Bindom, 39, was arrested at Pilgani village in possession of 65.85kgs cannabis and 18 grams of tramadol, while another suspect, Sunday Agbata, 42, was nabbed at Pavwei-Rayfield Jos South LGA with 5,830 tablets and ampoules of bromazepam, diazepam and pentazocine injection on Wednesday 23rd October.
A major distributor of illicit drugs in FCT Abuja, Umar Muhammed, 40, was on Monday, October 21st, following the earlier seizure of a consignment of 198.5kgs of cannabis linked to him at Wuse Market Park.
In Edo State, NDLEA operatives recovered 640kgs cannabis concealed in 80 jumbo bags of fresh vegetables at Ewu junction, Irrua, Esan Central LGA, and arrested a suspect, Austin Oruamen, 27, while another suspect Adereti Kazeem, 35, was nabbed with 200 blocks of cannabis weighing 133kgs at Obalayan, Ile-Ife, Osun state on Thursday 24th October.