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  • NDLEA Nabs Brazil returnee with 105 parcels of cocaine in candies

    NDLEA Nabs Brazil returnee with 105 parcels of cocaine in candies

    A Brazil returnee known as Agbasi Prosper Chux, was intercepted by operatives of the  National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for being in possession of 105 parcels of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.

    The illicit drugs were concealed in candieshe brought from the South American country.

    They suspect was arrested at the D arrival hall of the MMIA during inward clearance of passengers from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha on Qatar Airways.
    NDLEA Director of Media and advocacy, confirmed the arrest via a statement on New year day.
    He said nothing incriminating was found during an initial search of the suspect’s two checked-in bags.
    The NDLEA officers then took a second look at the duty-free shopping nylon bags containing packs of candies he was holding in his hands.

    Babafemi said: “A thorough examination of the duty-free shopping bags revealed the packs of candies inside were actually used to conceal 105 parcels of cocaine weighing 2.8 kilograms and 43 grams of cannabis.

    “Preliminary test conducted on a plastic bottle of body lotion also found in possession of the suspect also tested positive to cocaine with a total weight of 472 grams.

    “Married to a Brazilian lady with a daughter, Prosper who claimed to be into clothing business in Brazil was hoping to sell the drug in Enugu, his state.”

    The agency said three other traffickers were arrested by operatives with a total of 256 kilograms of illicit substances.

    The drugs were seized from them during interdiction operations in Kwara, Kogi and Niger states in the past week.

    “While a team of NDLEA officers on stop and search duty along Ilorin- Jebba highway on December 26 arrested a suspect, Idris Saeed, 19, with 60 blocks of compressed cannabis sativa weighing 30kgs, their colleagues in Niger on similar operation along Jebba-Mokwa road also recovered 240 blocks of the same substance weighing 168 kilograms, from multi-colour sacks loaded in a Peugeot J5 bus, with registration number MAG 146 XA, coming from Lagos and going to Kano for delivery.

    “In Kogi, operatives intercepted a truck coming from Onitsha, Anambra State to Maiduguri, Borno along Okene-Abuja highway where 9,900 ampoules of pentazocine injection (42kgs) were recovered.

    “In the same vein, a suspect, Ibrahim Jibril, 20, was arrested on the same route with 40 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 16kgs coming from Lagos to Jigawa in a Toyota Hiace commercial bus on December 27.”

  • U.S. govt. to strengthen forensic analysis capacity of NDLEA

    U.S. govt. to strengthen forensic analysis capacity of NDLEA

    The United States government has announced a project to strengthen the forensic and chemical analysis capacity of the NDLEA as well as its intelligence gathering and prosecution capabilities.

    NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated this on Monday in Abuja.

    He added that the support was from the U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.

    It came on the heels of an award of N500 million grant received by the agency from the Abdul Samad Rabiu Initiative to fund selected projects.

    He explained that the U.S support resulted from requests by NDLEA’s Chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa during meetings with top U.S. officials in Abuja and in Washington DC.

    He added that the award letter stated that the project would be implemented by the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime in Nigeria.

    Aside the support for the forensic and chemical analysis capacity of the agency, the U.S. government said “the project will further support NDLEA’s efforts to conduct intelligence-led investigations.

    “This will be through diverse resources as well as legal books and an e-library for prosecution and other legal needs of the agency.

    “Through all these, the NDLEA will be better equipped to prosecute cases with reliable evidence, using improved collection, handling, and custodial procedures.

    “We appreciate our strong and continued working relationship and believe this project will be an important step in advancing our shared goal of a united, peaceful, and stable Nigeria.’’

  • Don’t abuse trust reposed in us – Marwa warns NDLEA officers

    Don’t abuse trust reposed in us – Marwa warns NDLEA officers

    The Chairman, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa has warned officers and men of the agency not to abuse the trust reposed on them by the public.

    Marwa gave the warning on Tuesday in Abuja at the NDLEA’s end-of-year awards, commendation and decoration of promoted officers.

    He said President Muhammadu Buhari had done a lot in terms of welfare packages for the personnel and assured that the management would continue to prioritise their welfare, professionalism and work entitlements.

    According to him, the barrack project for officers and men is in full swing, an indicating that the future is bright for NDLEA personnel.

    “Therefore, we cannot afford to have officers that cross the lines in terms of temptations. You have got nothing to fear whether now or in retirement.

    “This is because we now have a good welfare package that should take care of you and your family on the job or in retirement,” he said.

    Marwa said that the agency was also exploring opportunities for national and international staff trainings.

    This he said was to further improve their professionalism and place them at par with the best narcotic officers in the world.

    The NDLEA chairman said that the agency had had a record number of diverse trainings in 2022 and assured that there were still more to come.

    “Hence, as you go back to your respective commands, let us take back the message to our colleagues that management has got your back.

    “As the year draws to an end, let us bear in mind that we must surpass our record of the past two years in 2023.

    “The goal of a drug-free Nigeria is attainable and that is our mandate.

    “Importantly, let us recognise that we are in a moment of history, therefore, we must seize the momentum and run a good race,” he added.

    Marwa said that the NDLEA management was committed to to improving productivity of all personnel, to meet the target of making Nigeria a drug-free country.

    Highlights of the event were presentations of awards, commendation letters and decoration of promoted officers to their new ranks, among others.

  • [Video]NDLEA discovers bunker used to store illegal drugs

    [Video]NDLEA discovers bunker used to store illegal drugs

    The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has uncovered an underground bunker in the house of a suspected drug kingpin, Okrika Kingsley Ozioma, at Usiefurum town, Ughelli South LGA, Delta state

    While acting on a tipoff, NDLEA stormed Ozioma three-bedroom bungalow building where the drug bunker was discovered. A statement released by Femi Babafemi, spokesperson of the anti-drug agency says the suspect is now on the run. He mentioned that 17.6kgs of Cannabis Sativa was recovered from the bunker in addition to a 2003 Silver Golf car with registration number Lagos KJA 572 AZ used for the distribution of drugs within and outside Warri.

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  • NDLEA arrests another pregnant drug dealer with 1,161kgs of cannabis in Delta

    NDLEA arrests another pregnant drug dealer with 1,161kgs of cannabis in Delta

    Barely one week after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) nabbed a pregnant woman over possession of hard drugs, a 30-year-old pregnant drug dealer has been arrested in Delta State.

    Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, December 11, said a raid operation in Abbi town, Ndokwa West Local Government Area of the state led to the arrest of Aniekem Evelyn, with 1,161kgs of cannabis recovered from her warehouse.

    In Kebbi state, two suspects: Austine Julius and Sale Yakubu were arrested on Sunday 4th December along Yawuri-Kebbi road in a loaded Dyna Truck with 117 bags of Cannabis Sativa weighing 1,070 kilograms concealed under bags of oranges.

    TheNewsGuru.com (TNG) reports that NDLEA is a federal law enforcement agency in Nigeria under the Federal Ministry of Justice charged with eliminating the growing, processing, manufacturing, selling, exporting, and trafficking of hard drugs. The agency was established by Decree Number 48 of 1989.

    NDLEA is present in international airports, seaports, and border crossings and also targets the leaders of narcotics and money laundering organizations.

    Drug trafficking
    The United States donated full body scanning machines for the Lagos, Kano, Abuja and Port Harcourt international airports and provided security training and orientation to airport officers.

    The machines have proved effective in catching smugglers and couriers taking cocaine from Latin America to Europe by way of Nigeria. Between 2006 and June 2008 over 12,663 suspected drug dealers were arrested, with the seizure of over 418.8 metric tonnes of various hard drugs.

    Recall that in July 2009, a woman about to board a KLM flight at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport was arrested by NDLEA officers and later excreted 42 wraps of cocaine, weighing 585 grams. In September 2009, the NDLEA arrested a Guinean woman en route from Brazil to Europe with 6.350 kg of pure cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos.

    In 2008 Nigeria was certified by the United States in the anti-narcotic crusade for the eight successive time. President George Bush said that Nigeria had made significant progress in counter narcotics and had effectively co-operated with the United States on drug-related and money laundering cases.

    In Katsina State, 100 people were convicted for drug offences from January to May 2008, and 358 people were arrested for drug offences in the same period.

  • Alleged drug trafficking: CSO drags NDLEA, AGF to court demanding immediate prosecution of Tinubu

    Alleged drug trafficking: CSO drags NDLEA, AGF to court demanding immediate prosecution of Tinubu

    A Civil Society Organization, CSO, under the aegis of Centre for Reform and Public Advocacy has dragged the National Drugs and Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, the Minister of Justice and Attorney General to the Federation, Abubakar Malami to immediately start prosecution of APC’s presidential candidate Bola Ahmed Tinubu over alleged money laundering and drug trafficking.

    In suit number FHC/Abj/CS/2237/22 dated December 2, 2022, sighted by TheNewsGuru.com, (TNG) the group wants the court based on the certified judgment of a US Court start prosecution of the presidential candidate of the ruling party on money laundering and drug trafficking.

    TNG recalls that the latest certified copies of the court case, obtained on August 10, showed Mr Tinubu and two others named K.O. Tinubu and Alhaji Mogati were involved in banking proceeds of illicit drugs and money laundering with Heritage Bank and Citibank. It was not immediately clear whether or not ‘Alhaji Mogati’ was a misspelling of Alhaja Abibatu Mogaji, Mr Tinubu’s foster mother, who passed on in 2013.
    The U.S. government had in July 1993 sought forfeiture of proceeds of narcotics Mr Tinubu was accused of laundering. The matter was resolved in a compromise between the Tinubus and the U.S. authorities, with the Tinubus being asked to keep the money in the Heritage Bank account while the $460,000 in the Citibank account was forfeited.

    In the originating summons, the plaintiff demanded for a declaration that the first and second defendants are bound by the constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria by Section 4 of the Act and establishing NDLEA and Section 3 of the Justice Criminal Administration Act, 2015 to prosecute the 3rd Defendant under Section 18 of the Money Laundering Act, 2022 in that on October 4, 1993 the United States District court Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division in case number 93C4483, United States of America -Plaintiff V funds in account 263226700 held by First Heritage Bank in the name of Bola Tinubu.

    The plaintiff to this end asked the court to determine whether the 1st and 2nd Defendants are, on the basis of the allegation in the complaint lodged by the Plaintiff in the letters attached to this process as exhibits
    “A” and “B”, bound by the 1999 Constitution, Section 4 of The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency Act and Section 3 of the Administration of Criminal Justice Act, 2015 to prosecute Senator Bola Ahmed Tinubu, the 3rd Defendant .

    Also whether Section 4 in the Act establishing the NDLEA Act is mandated to prosecute the the 3rd defendants among others as expressly stated in the originating summons.

  • NDLEA nabs grandma, pregnant woman over possession of hard drugs

    NDLEA nabs grandma, pregnant woman over possession of hard drugs

    A 60-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Ibinosun Sandra Esther, and a pregnant woman have been arrested during interdiction operations in which 5,527.15 kilograms of methamphetamine and cannabis sativa, as well as 132,090 tablets of tramadol and 2,000 bottles of codeine were recovered by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA across five states and the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja in the past week.

    The Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), has however directed that the pregnant woman be granted administrative bail pending when she is delivered of her baby and thereafter return for her prosecution because at the time of her arrest, she was in her ninth month of pregnancy.

    The grandma was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo state in a follow up operation following the seizure of 5.5kg Loud variant of cannabis imported into the country from South Africa.

    The consignment, which she claimed was sent to her by her daughter was concealed in two giant Speakers as part of a consolidated cargo that arrived the NAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos on board an Airpeace Airline flight.

    NDLEA nabs grandma

    In a related development, NDLEA operatives also on Saturday 26th November intercepted 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed inside custard tins packed among cosmetics and foodstuffs going to Brazil via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.

    A cargo agent, Salako Omolara Fausat who brought the bag containing the illicit drug to the airport and an intending passenger to Brazil, Anyanwu Christian, who was to travel with the consignment were promptly arrested.

    Another attempt by a freight agent, Adebisi Aina Hafsat to export 3,000 tablets of tramadol concealed in motor spare parts to Banjul, Gambia through the NAHCO export shed was equally thwarted by operatives who seized the consignment and arrested her on Monday 28th Nov, while a follow up operation to Ebute-Meta area of Lagos the following day, Tuesday 29th Nov led to the arrest of the actual owner, Afam Chibuke Stanley, who is a spare parts seller.

    This was followed by the seizure of 100,000 tablets of Royal brand of Tramadol 200mg with a gross weight of 68.90 kilograms imported from Karachi, Pakistan on Ethiopian Airlines at the SAHCO import shed.

    In Abuja, operatives stormed the warehouse of a notorious drug lord and an ex-convict, Ibrahim Momoh, alias Ibrahim Bendel who escaped from prison custody to return to his criminal trade and recovered 81 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1,278kgs.

    Though the fleeing drug dealer is still at large and is wanted by the Agency, his warehouse keeper, 55-year-old Ghanaian, Richard Forson Gordon, was arrested.

    Ibrahim Momoh was first arrested on 27th November, 2014 with the same substance weighing 385.1kgs, prosecuted, convicted and sentenced to seven and a half years in prison on 22nd of April, 2020 but escaped from jail after three months.

    Meanwhile, no fewer than 2,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup were seized in a commercial bus by operatives on Friday 2nd December along Lokoja – Abuja expressway.

    In Rivers state, operatives on Saturday 3rd Dec arrested a 29-year-old pregnant woman, Kate Ibinabo with 34.4kgs cannabis sativa in Okrika area of the state.

    In Ondo state, 241 bags of the psychoactive substance with a gross weight of 3,133kg were recovered from a building at Ilale Cashew, Ehinogbe, Owo, on Tuesday 29th Nov. At least, 507.9kgs of cannabis were also seized during a raid at the hideout of a fleeing drug dealer in Mushin area of Lagos on Thursday 1st Dec.

    In Cross River, 53 jumbo bags of C/S weighing 567.05kgs were seized from three suspects: Bassey Boniface Eyibio, 38; Effiong Akiba Etim, 30 and Ngbong Raymond, 45 at Mpara junction, Odukpani LGA on Thursday 1st Dec while conveying the consignment in a bus marked CKK 74 AA. Operatives equally arrested another suspect, Ali Mohammed along Potiskum- Damaturu road after they found 29,090 tablets of tramadol in his personal Honda car marked ABC 914 RW coming from Gombe to Damaturu, Yobe state.

    While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Rivers, Ondo, Lagos, Cross River and Yobe Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures, Gen. Marwa charged them and their counterparts across other formations to continue to step up their offensives against drug cartels.

  • NDLEA arrests wanted Abia drug kingpin, declares brother wanted

    NDLEA arrests wanted Abia drug kingpin, declares brother wanted

    NDLEA has arrested one of two brothers who served as major sources of illicit drugs in the Southeast and South-South parts of the country, Onyeaghalachi Stephen.

    This is contained in a statement issued by its spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi on Tuesday in Abuja.

    Babafemi stated that NDLEA operatives arrested Stephen after nine years of manhunt, adding that his elder brother, Eze Stephen, who was also wanted, escaped narrowly.

    He added that Stephen was arrested during an overnight operation executed simultaneously in the brothers’ two locations at Umuahia and at Ntigha Okpuola community in Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia.

    Babafemi stated that investigations showed the two brothers began careers in illicit drugs business since the late 1990s when they started as pocket dealers.

    He added that the two brothers later established smoking joints and bunks in their community, Ntigha Okpuola.

    They later became barons owning hotels and houses in choice areas of Abia, Rivers and Imo and acquiring exotic cars.

    Babafemi stated also that the NDLEA had been on their trail since 2013 when they organised a mob attack on some of the agency’s operatives who attempted to apprehend them.

    He added that one of the NDLEA officers attacked then was still bedridden, saying that the two drug lords equally have armed militia guarding their houses and drugs stores.

    The NDLEA’s spokesman stated that the two brothers dealt in assorted illicit substances like cocaine, heroin, Methamphetamine (Mpuru-miri), “Loud/Arizona’’ grade of Indian hemp and assorted other hard drugs.

    He stated also that a fresh bid to bring the duo to book and end their criminal trade was launched four months ago, leading to a simultaneous raid on their locations on Saturday, Nov. 26.

    “The younger brother, Onyeaghalachi Stephen, who lives in Umuahia, was successfully arrested.

    “The elder brother, Eze Stephen, narrowly escaped when his Ntigha Okpuola community home was stormed by operatives backed by men of the Nigerian Army.

    “In the course of the operation, one of their militiamen, Eberechi Kingsley, was also arrested,’’ Babafemi stated.

    He added that during the raid, quantities of cocaine and variants of India hemp were recovered from their two homes.

    Babafemi stated also that the NDLEA had so far sealed two hotels, one eatery, and two mansions linked to the brothers and recovered three exotic vehicles from their homes.

    He stressed that efforts were on-going to trace their bank accounts and more of their property.

    “The sealed hotels are Jahlove Hotel, Mbawsi, at Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area and Noicyhl Luxury Hotel, Aba-Port-Harcourt Expressway, Aba.

    “The eatery sealed is Royal Cruise Fast Food located on Enugu-Port Harcourt Expressway, Isiala Ngwa North Local Government Area of Abia,’’ he stated.

    Babafemi quoted NDLEA’s chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa as commending officers and men of the agency involved in the operation as well as men of the military who supported them for their professionalism.

    Marwa said it was in the interest of the fleeing baron to turn himself in before the agency smoked him out because there would be no hiding place for him.

  • JUST IN: NDLEA arrests wanted kingpin

    JUST IN: NDLEA arrests wanted kingpin

    Operations of a major cocaine syndicate in Lagos have been disrupted with the arrest of a 56-year-old trafficker, Lawal Oyenuga, by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

    NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated in Abuja on Sunday that the suspect was on a mission to deliver 400 grams of the “Class A’’ drug when he was nabbed.

    Babafemi stated that the drug was concealed in a pair of black palm sandals packed in a luggage en-route Jeddah via an Ethiopian Airways flight.

    A thorough examination of the sandals revealed they were used to conceal two parcels of cocaine weighing 400 grams.

    He added that there was also a swift follow-up arrest at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos on Nov. 24 of a wanted notorious kingpin, Wasiu Sanni popularly known as “Teacher’’.

    Sanni recruits mules for the Lagos drug cartel.

    “This is barely a week after a 56-year-old widow and mother of four, Mrs Sidika Ajisegiri was arrested at the Lagos airport while attempting to traffic 400 grams of cocaine to Saudi Arabia.

    “She was scheduled to board a Qatar Airways flight with the drugs concealed in her footwear,’’ Babafemi stated.

    According to him, the suspect claimed she was recruited to traffic the drug by Sanni popularly known as “Teacher’’.

    “She claimed that she was first given some pellets of cocaine to swallow but when she couldn’t do that, she was given the choice of concealing those found in the palm sandals.

    “She said she resorted to the criminal trade to raise money to pay an examination fee for her daughter in Senior Secondary School Class 3,’’ Babafemi stated.

    He added that NDLEA’s database showed that Sanni had been linked to some previous attempts to traffic cocaine to Saudi Arabia and to Dubai.

    He stated also that Sanni was earlier named as the one who recruited a BRT driver, Bolajoko Babalola for a Lagos socialite and hotel owner, Alhaji Ademola Kazeem (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem) to traffic drugs to Dubai.

    “Babalola was arrested on June 27 while taking 900 grams of cocaine to Dubai while Kazeem was nabbed on Thursday, Nov. 10, 10 days after he was declared wanted by the NDLEA.

    “A follow-up operation in the early hours of Nov. 25 led to the arrest of the kingpin, “Teacher’’ at his residence in Ikorodu area of Lagos State.

    “Teacher’ specialises in recruiting mules for drug barons in Lagos and its environs. The 64-year-old Sanni is a housing and property agent, with seven children and four wives, one of whom is now deceased,’’ he stated.

    Babafemi added that in another follow up operation, Hopewell Chukwuemeka, owner of seized 1.1kg of Indian hemp concealed in bottles of body cream headed for Dubai was arrested in Port Harcourt.

    Chukwuemeka, arrested on Nov. 24 runs a boutique business in the Rivers capital city, he stated.

  • BREAKING: Wanted popular Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels arrested by NDLEA

    BREAKING: Wanted popular Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels arrested by NDLEA

    Ten days after he was declared wanted, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested fleeing Lagos socialite and owner of Adekaz Hotels, Alhaji Ademola Afolabi Kazeem (a.k.a Alhaji Abdallah Kazeem Muhammed) over offences bordering on exportation and trafficking of illicit drugs as well as money laundering.

    Recall that the NDLEA had on Tuesday 1st November declared the suspect wanted following his failure to honour invitations and an order granted by a Federal High Court in Lagos. The wanted drug kingpin was uncovered as the sponsor of some traffickers arrested by the anti-narcotics agency in their recent attempt to export cocaine to Dubai, UAE and other destinations outside Nigeria.

    “The search for him however paid off on Thursday 10′ Nov when he was successfully taken into custody where he is currently being interviewed. His lid was blown open after the arrest of one of his mules, Bolujoko Muyiwa Babalola, a Lagos BRT driver on 27th June at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, when he named Alhaji Ademola Kazeem, alias Adekaz as the owner of the 900grams of cocaine he ingested.

    “Following Adekaz’s failure to honour invitations sent to him, the Agency approached a Federal High Court in Lagos with three prayers: to attach and seal his identified properties in choice areas of Lagos Island and Ibadan; declare him wanted and block his bank account with a cash balance of Two Hundred and Seventeen Million Naira (N217,000,000.00), all of which were granted,” a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director of NDLEA’s Media & Advocacy reads.

    In a related development, NDLEA operatives also arrested a businesswoman, Okefun Darlington Chisom over her links with two Pakistanis: Asif Muhammed, 45 and Hussain Naveed, 57, arrested at the Lagos airport with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a sound system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahore, Pakistan via Doha on Saturday 5th Nov.

    An automobile parts dealer, Omeje Oliver (a.k.a David Mark) who was arrested on Monday 31st October in Enugu where he fled to after abandoning his business at Aspanda, Trade Fair Complex Lagos since 16 April in connection with the seizure of 600 grams of heroin concealed inside soles of lady’s footwear going to Liberia, has been linked to another drug seizure.

    A further look at the Agency’s database reveals Omeje was also involved in a case of 1.580kg of Methamphetamine that was seized from one Victor Nwobodo Friday, who was arrested at the MMIA during his aborted trip to Jakarta, Indonesia on February 6, 2018. Charges have been filed against the suspect at the Federal High Court Lagos in respect of the old seizure in addition to that of the recent one.

    Meanwhile, NDEA operatives attached to the SAHCO import shed of the MMIA Lagos have intercepted another consignment of Tramadol from Karachi, Pakistan. A total of 6 cartons comprising 497,900 tablets of Royal Tramaking brand of Tramadol 225mg with a gross weight of 304.90 kilograms were recovered after a joint examination by stakeholders on Friday 11th Nov.

    Operatives in Ogun state in the early hours of Saturday 12′ Nov raided a warehouse at Ogere area of Ikene LGA where they seized 273 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 3,533 kilograms (3.533tons) from a couple, Mr. and Mrs. Jesutofunmi Solomon.

    This came on the heels of the seizure of 176kgs of C/S at Ogere trailer park on Wednesday 9th Nov and the destruction of 15 hectares of cannabis plantation in Gbamgbam area of the state.

    In the same vein, operatives in Osun state have raided a cannabis plantation at Obada sawmill, Owena ljesa in Oriade LGA where they destroyed 1.2hectares, recovered 2,823kgs of processed C/S and arrested 13 suspects on Sunday 6th November.

    In Ondo, operatives seized 78kgs of cannabis from a dealer, Beauty Godwin at Ofosu along Benin-Ore express road, and another 264kgs from Abdul Rasheed Mohammed, and AbdulRasheed Haruna at Sanusi camp 2 in Owo, while in Rivers state, anti-narcotics officers of the Agency arrested Damion Onuoha during a raid at Elele Alimini community, Emuoha LGA, where he was found with 1.6kgs of Methamphetamine as well as monetary exhibit amounting to six hundred and fifty thousand, seven hundred naira (N650,700.00). A joint operation with the military at Habour road, Port Harcourt City also led to the arrest of Sandra David and seizure of different quantities of cocaine and heroin as well as two million, fifty five thousand, seven hundred and fifty naira (N2,055,750.00) cash exhibit from her home.

    In Edo state, operatives located and destroyed 10 clusters of cannabis sativa farms measuring 14 hectares at Iqwalor forest, Uhunmwonde GA where five bags of processed C/S weighing 47.7kgs were recovered, while a raid at Obadan village, in the same LGA also led to the recovery 11 bags of cannabis sativa seeds weighing 399kgs and 34 bags of processed substance weighing 431kgs, bringing the total weight to 830kgs. Two suspects: Enododia Sunday and Osayaba Paul were arrested at the scene.

    While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Ogun, Osun, Ondo, Rivers and Edo Commands of the Agency for the successful operations in the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR urged them and their counterparts across the country to intensify the heat on drug barons and cartels.