The NDLEA has disrupted international drug trafficking networks after seizing more than 10 billion in illegal substances at the country’s ports and MMIA in series of intelligence-led operations, busting three massive seizures of cocaine, synthetic cannabis, heroin and tramadol and arresting suspected kingpins.
‘One major success was the arrest of Onuigbo Ndubisi Chinedu, a clothing trader and businessman, aged 55 of Lagos Island’s Balogun Market, for mastermindmind an export attempt of 3.30kg of cocaine by concealing it within the walls of food cartons on transit to the United Kingdom, after arresting three cargo agents who processed the transaction,’ stated NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi.
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‘At the Apapa Port, NDLEA operators also found 4,777 sachets of Canadian Loud (synthetic cannabis), weighing 2,388.5kg and estimated to have a street value above 7.1 billion, packed within three cars inside a shipping container during a collaborative inspection by the agency, Nigerian Customs Service, and other law enforcement agencies’.
The NDLEA also retrieved 2.24 million of Tapentadol 250mg opioid drugs, worth more than 2.2 billion, from a container that had arrived from India by an Air Maroc flight; it also recovered 2.8kg of Canadian Loud from the United States in connection with the arrest of 31-year-old entrepreneur Emmanuella Chukwu-Edo; in a separate operation in Lagos, the agency prevented the smuggling of tramadol to the United Kingdom after discovering it disguised within containers of black soap at a local courier warehouse.
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Operatives recovered 401 military caliber bullets hidden in kegs of palm oil at the Kaduna and Katsina states, indicating possible ties between organized criminal groups and illegal weapons supply.
‘These successful interdiction operations stem from enhanced intelligence gathering and collaboration among various security agencies across the nation, and would surely further deter transnational crime and ensure Nigeria ceases being used as a drug trafficking transit route,” added Babafemi.
