In a remote estate in the Ikorodu district of Lagos State, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Monday busted a large warehouse where 1.8 tonnes of illegal drugs worth over $278,250,000, or around N194, 775,000,000 in market value, were seized.
The director of media and advocacy for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Monday that the well-planned, intelligence-led operation, which lasted two days across various locations in the state, resulted in the arrest of at least four drug lords, including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager.Information Guide Nigeria
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“Preliminary investigation reveals the class A drugs were warehoused in the residential estate from where the cartel was trying to sell them to buyers in Europe, Asia and other parts of the world. They were stored in 10 travel bags and 13 drums.”
The NDLEA also verified the arrest of 11 people for possession of drugs, firearms, and ammunition across several states in the nation.
In a subsequent statement on Sunday, Babafemi claimed that on Saturday, while on patrol along the Okene-Abuja road, NDLEA personnel stopped a J5 vehicle travelling from Onitsha to Zaria, Kaduna State, carrying 18 pump action rifles and 1,300 cartridges.
According to the agency’s spokesperson, Chukwudi Aronu, 51, and Shuaibu Gambo, 23, who were carrying weapons and ammunition, were detained. Anthony Agada, 37, who was carrying 1,000 cartridges, was also apprehended on the same day in a bus travelling from Onitsha to Abuja.
He said, “1,404 bottles of codeine syrup and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized from another vehicle coming from Onitsha en-route Sokoto, with the receiver, Stanley Raymond, 39, and the sender, Shadrack Ifediora, 46, arrested in follow up operations in Sokoto and Anambra States respectively.”JAMB Result
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