The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives have intercepted and seized 5,344 kg of loud, an imported synthetic strain of cannabis, at the Lekki area of Lagos.
In a statement on Sunday, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, said the illicit drugs were seized during two operations following intelligence gathered by the agency.
He said the agency’s operatives “laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway” in the early hours of June 19.
Babafemi added that the truck driver “jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Hilux van” accompanying the consignment.
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In another operation the following day, NDLEA said, “a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910kg around was intercepted at Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana”.
Two Ghanaians — Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana — were arrested in connection with the shipment.
“In Niger state, two suspects: Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were arrested on Sunday, June 18, along Abuja expressway, Suleja, with 31 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 517kg, while a 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday, June 21, at Ogbogodo village, Dekina LGA, Kogi state,” Babafemi said.
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“A suspected fake female security agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was also nabbed at Ajegunle Asa Dam Area of Ilorin, Kwara state, with 30kg of cannabis on Thursday, June 22, while in Oyo state, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 4 kg of same substance on Saturday, June 24 in Oyo town.
“Operatives in Edo state stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects, namely: Onyeka Onyedinma; Monday Onyedi; Alex Eboh; Edosa Imariagbe; Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday, June 19.”
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