The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted illicit drug consignments in different parts of the country.
According to the Spokesman of the Agency, Femi Babafemi who made this known in a statement on Sunday, September 17, the illicit drug consignments were concealed in different items.
The statement disclosed that an intending passenger going to Oman, Ugwu Peter Tochukwu at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Tuesday, 12th September was intercepted with 7.50 kilograms of skunk which was concealed inside crayfish mixed with dry bitter leaf while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight.
“In the same vein, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations attached to some courier companies also intercepted Dubai-bound 2.9 kilograms of skunk and 14 grams of methamphetamine concealed in bags of semovita and soles of ladies’ high heel shoes respectively.
“Two suspects: 32 years Moses Akowe, and 31 years Sunday Gabriel, were arrested with 227.1kgs of cannabis on Tuesday 11th September at Ikebe village, Ankpa LGA, Kogi state, a female suspect, 35 years Bilikisu Salako, was nabbed with 108kgs of same substance on Saturday 16th September in Ifo area of Ogun state.
“A total of 100 blocks of cannabis weighing 55kgs and 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup seized from the duo of Salisu Murtala and Shafi’u Dahiru on Tuesday 11th September along Abuja road have been traced to two other suspects: Muntari Nasiru and Yusuf Ali who were arrested in follow up operations in Kano.
“In FCT Abuja, a 27-year-old Kingsley Chimaobi was arrested with 6,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup along Lokogoma-Abuja road on Tuesday 11th September”, the statement read.
The Agency also stated that a Federal High Court in Lagos on Wednesday, September 13, sentenced a drug dealer, Segun Odeyemi for trafficking and dealing in 3,842 kilograms of skunk to five years imprisonment.
Babafemi said that Odeyemi was arrested on Saturday 1st July while conveying 89 jumbo bags of the illicit substance in his truck around the Eleganza area of Ajah in Lekki, Lagos state and he was charged in suit number FHC/L/388C/2023 presided over by Justice Akintayo Aluko.
The Agency further stated that fresh attempts to export various quantities of methamphetamine and skunk by members of some transnational drug trafficking organisations through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja and courier companies in Lagos have been thwarted by its operatives.
