NDLEA intercepts China, UK-bound drug consignments

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two parcels containing cocaine and amphetamine concealed in steel bolts and shea butter.

This is contained in a statement by NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.

Babafemi said NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations (DOGI), attached to a courier firm in Lagos on Wednesday, May 15, intercepted the consignments.

He said the cocaine, which weighed 587g, was concealed in eight steel bolt screws going to China.

He also said the amphetamine consignment, packed in vape pens and hidden in Shea butter, was going to the United Kingdom.

Meanwhile. An attempt by Emeka Nwadiaro (a.k.a. Mega) to export 3.6 kg of Loud, a strain of cannabis concealed in 36 water flasks, to Dubai, UAE, was also thwarted.

Babafemi said that the attempt was foiled at a logistic company in Port Harcourt, Rivers, on Thursday, May 16.

“A swift follow-up operation led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Emeka Nwadiaro, in Onitsha, Anambra, the same day,“ he said.

Also, NDLEA operatives in Lagos intercepted a Mercedes-Benz bus loaded with 840 kg of cannabis and arrested the driver, Samuel Henry, at Olojo in the Ojo area of Lagos.

Babafemi said that another suspect, Lawal Adam, was nabbed along Otukpo Road, Aliade, Benue, on Friday, May 17, with 75,000 pills of opioids, including tramadol and exol-5.

“Two suspects, Olisa Etisi, 32, and Jonathan Umeh, 25, were arrested along Owerri-Onitsha Road, Imo.

This followed the discovery by NDLEA operatives of a big gas cylinder used to conceal six blocks of Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 3.85kg, “he said.

In another development, Babafemi said that a 70-year-old Adamu Mohammed was arrested at Mbulamel, Biu area of Borno, on Thursday, May 16, withtwo kg of cannabis and 33.55 grammes of diazepam.

Babafemi said that another suspected drug trafficker, Gaddafi Sani, 27, was arrested with 30kg of cannabis along the Abuja-Kaduna road in Kaduna.