Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted large consignments of Methamphetamine popularly called Mkpuru Mmiri locally concealed in Cornflakes packs and body cream containers enroute Malaysia and Australia at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
In a statement signed by the NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, two freight agents; Nneji Anoma and Etoh Barnabas involved in the bid to export illicit drug were also arrested.
The nine parcels of Methamphetamine weighing 1.45kg were hidden in packs of cornflakes waybill to Malaysia through the NAHCO export shed of the MMIA on Wednesday, June 15, 2022.
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 Two Hundred Million Naira (N200, 000, 000) have been seized during a joint examination with the Customs at the NCS warehouse.
The consignment, which had arrived at SAHCO import shed on June 6 from India via Ethiopian Airlines was eventually transferred to the NDLEA by the Nigeria Customs Service.
The previous day, a similar joint examination with the Sister Agency at the Customs enforcement terminal, Tincan seaport, Lagos led to the seizure of 33 parcels of cannabis indica (Colorado) weighing 16.5kgs.
The drug exhibit was recovered from a 40-foot container, TRHU 7874497 containing four vehicles.
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The cannabis coming from Montreal, Canada was discovered in three out of the four vehicles the container.
Also, operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI at the Agency attached to a courier company have intercepted a kilogram of Methamphetamine concealed in body cream containers heading to Australia.
Meanwhile, the drug cartels also suffered losses in other operations across Adamawa, Borno, Kogi, Ogun, Zamfara, and Taraba states.
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.
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 with reg. no. 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 LGA on Thursday 17 June 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 traveling 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 liters of Codeine at Ogere, Ikenne LGA, Ogun state on Wednesday, June 15.
A consignment of 11,660 tablets of Hyponox and 6,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection was recovered from a drug dealer, Success Amaefuna at Tsafe area of Zamfara 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 LGA, Taraba state.
(Editor: Ebuwa Omo-Osagie)
