Operatives of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a shipment of cocaine, concealed in 20 sets of religious books, bound for Saudi Arabia.
Gatekeepers News reports that Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesman in a statement, noted that the cocaine consignment, weighing 500 grammes, was discovered at a courier company in Lagos on April 15, as officers searched through export cargoes.
In another operation, operatives of NDLEA intercepted five parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, weighing 2.8 kilogrammes, hidden in a carton coming from United States, at a courier company in Lagos.
Officers of the agency also arrested several suspects, including Muhammad Mohammed, a 22-year-old “supplier of illicit substances to bandits”, who was caught with 277 ampoules of pentazocine injection tied to his thigh and private part with sellotape.
Another suspect, Mohammed Abdulrahman Abdulaziz, 43, was arrested with 68 blocks of skunk, a strain of cannabis, weighing 30 kilogrammes.
Additionally in Bayelsa state, operatives of NDLEA raided a house and recovered 557.2kg of skunk, 5.6kg of methamphetamine, and 29.8 grammes of heroin.
Four suspects were arrested during the raid, including Sarimiye Suwa Kurtis, 46; Roland Prosper, 34; Sarimiye Tare Paul, 45; and Fidelis Ugbesla, 46.
The NDLEA also destroyed two cannabis farms in Egbeta forest, Ovia North East LGA, Edo state, where 3,717.8625kg of the psychoactive plant were destroyed on 1.487145 hectares, and 136.5kg of processed cannabis were recovered.
Buba Marwa, NDLEA chairman, commended the officers for their efforts. He also praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
The statement added, “The War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, social advocacy activities by NDLEA Commands equally continued across the country in the past week.”
“Some of them include: WADA sensitization lecture delivered to students and staff of St. Michael Anglican Primary School, Epe, Lagos; Community Grammar School, Ipoti Ekiti, Ekiti state; College of Education, Minna, Niger state; traders at Igbona market, Osogbo, Osun state; traders at Marian Market, Calabar, Cross River; drivers and others at Peace Mass Transit park, Upper Iweka, Onitsha, Anambra state, among others.”
