NDLEA arrests wanted notorious drug dealer in Adamawa, seizes tons of illicit substances
Intercepts Meth consignments at Lagos airport, courier firm
OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ( NDLEA) have foiled attempts by drug traffickers at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, ( MMIA), Ikeja, and a courier company in Lagos, to export parcels of Methamphetamine popularly called Mkpuru Mmiri, locally concealed in cornflakes packs and body cream containers to Malaysia and Australia.
Consequently, the anti- narcotics officers have on Wednesday, June 15, arrested two freight agents; Nneji Anoma and Etoh Barnabas involved in the bid to export nine parcels of Methamphetamine weighing 1.45kg hidden in packs of cornflakes to Malaysia through the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company Plc ( NAHCO) export shed of the MMIA.
Another consignment of 10 cartons of tramadol 225mg packaged as tramaking containing 500,000 tablets with a total weight of 407kg and an estimated street value of N200 million have been seized during a joint examination with the Customs at the NCS warehouse.
The consignment, which had arrived Skyway Aviation Handling Company ( SAHCO) import shed since June 6, from India via Ethiopian Airline was eventually transferred to the NDLEA by Customs on Wednesday, June 15
Spokesperson for the anti narcotic agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, yesterday, said a similar joint examination with Customs at the Customs enforcement terminal, Tincan seaport, Lagos, the previous day, Tuesday, June 14, led to the seizure of 33 parcels of cannabis indica ( Colorado) weighing 16.5kgs.
The drug exhibit, he said, was recovered from a 40foot container, TRHU 7874497 containing four vehicles.
According to him, the cannabis coming from Montreal, Canada, was discovered in three out of the four vehicles in the container.
In the same vein, Babafemi said operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation ( DOGI) at the Agency attached to a courier company have intercepted a kilogramme of Methamphetamine concealed in body cream containers heading to Australia.
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EANWHILE, drug cartels have also suffered losses in other operations across Adamawa, Borno, Kogi, Ogun, Zamfara and Taraba states.
According to Babafemi, a notorious drug dealer, Abdullahi Musa, a. k. a Yerima Uding, wanted for some past attacks on officers and men of the agency was in the early hours of Thursday, June 16 arrested in Hong town, Adamawa State.
He said the 53- year- old suspect was caught with 57 blocks of compressed Cannabis sativa, concealed in the boot of his ash- coloured Toyota Corolla car marked GMB 185 MF.
He has been fingered as the mastermind of the mob attack in Hong on October 6, 2020 that led to the death of an NDLEA operative and another officer now bedridden due to permanent incapacitation.
In Borno State, another drug dealer, Umar Musa, was arrested in Tashan Kano, Gwoza Local Council on Thursday , June 17, with 8,000 capsules and tablets of tramadol weighing 4.550kgs, while 32.182kgs cannabis were seized by NDLEA operatives along Okene/ Abuja highway, Kogi State, from a commercial bus travelling from Lagos to Abuja.
Following credible intelligence, operatives also arrested one Nwanbunike Chibuike, 22, with 19,576 tablets of Exol- 5, Diazepam, tramadol and rohypnol as well as 7.9 litres of codeine at Ogere, Ikenne Local Council of Ogun State on Wednesday, June 15.
In Zamfara, a consignment of 11,660 tablets of Hyponox and 6,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection was recovered from a drug dealer , Success Amaefuna at T safe area of the state on his way to Sokoto State, while 5,000 tablets of tramadol were seized from Darius John F . Mbugun, 33, who ordered the consignment from Onitsha, Anambra State.
The drug exhibit was concealed in a bag of gari for distribution in Gembu, Sardauna Local Council of Taraba State.
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EANWHILE, Chairman/ Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa ( Retd), has commended officers and men of the MMIA, DOGI, Tincan, Adama wa, Borno, Kogi, Ogun, Zamfara and Taraba Commands for the seizures and arrests of the past week. He encouraged them and their compatriots across other formations to remain vigilant and intensify their offensive action against drug cartels in all parts of the country.