Chairman of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa (Rtd) says the anti-illicit drug agency will continue to collaborate with local and international partners until the Illicit drug supply chain is fully broken in Nigeria.
Marwa who was represented by the Agency’s Director of Seaports Operations, ACG Archieabia Ibinabo made this public during the handing over of seized 4.173 tons of Canadian Loud, by the Nigerian Customs Service. The high potency strain of Cannabis has a street value of over N10 billion at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos Wednesday.
This latest interception of the large consignment of Canadian Loud, followed painstaking intelligence gathering and sustained surveillance by trailing the container as it left Toronto Canada on 28th March 2026 which arrived Lagos port parked inside two vehicles in a container on Saturday 9th May, 2026.The container was then seized on Tuesday 12th May 2026 by the eagle eyed NDLEA operatives at the Tincan Island port, Lagos.
According to the NDLEA, this achievement demonstrates the effectiveness of inter-agency cooperation, international collaboration in combating transnational organised crime and Illicit drug trafficking.
This second massive seizure in less than one week no doubt speaks volume as the NDLEA operatives raided a Lekki mansion used as a stash house where 4,000 parcels of Illicit drug weighing 2.3 tons with a market value of N5.8 billion were recovered.
(Editor: Terverr Tyav)
