The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have arrested Lookman Dauda and Olayinka Toheebat Dauda, a couple, for running a drug cartel.
In a statement on Tuesday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the duo was arrested on May 25 by operatives of a special operations unit, with support from the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) of the United States.
He said the suspects were arrested at Ibiye, a community near Badagry, while attempting to cross the land border to deliver the consignment in Ghana.
He said at the point of their arrest, 42 blocks of cocaine weighing 47.5 kilogrammes, were found on them.
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“A swift follow up operation in their residence at Plot 24/25 OPIC Extension, Petedo road, Agbara, Ogun, led to the recovery of additional eight blocks of the same drug weighing 10kg,” the statement reads.
“This brought the total weight of the cocaine seized from the couple to 57.5 kilograms.”
Babafemi said in a separate raid by the special operations unit, no fewer than 1,100 ampoules of lethal synthetic opioid weighing 6.48kg were recovered.
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The NDLEA spokesman said the drugs were recovered from 34-year-old Ikeh Stanley Ifeanyi, a member of a drug trafficking syndicate, at the popular Idumota market in Lagos Island.
He said no less than 790 ampoules of fentanyl weighing 5.273kg were also seized from 48-year-old Chieze Ogechukwu Benjamin, another member of the syndicate, at Idumota market.
“Fentanyl, a lethal synthetic opioid which is 100 times more potent than heroin, is currently responsible for over 70 percent overdose deaths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the US,” the statement reads.
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