The Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has recovered a consignment of cocaine hidden within the sandals of a businessman sure for Spain on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA) in Lagos.
This was disclosed in a press launch dated Sunday, July 28, 2024, signed by NDLEA’s Director of Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
The assertion revealed that “a Spain-based businessman, 50-year-old Francis Akajiobi, was arrested by NDLEA operatives on the departure corridor of Terminal 2 of MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, after parcels of cocaine weighing 1.20 kilograms have been found in his sandals whereas trying to board his Royal Air Maroc flight to Madrid, Spain.”
The 2 parcels of cocaine have been hid within the soles of Akajiobi’s black sandals, which have been detected throughout a safety examine on Thursday, July 25, 2024. Throughout his preliminary interview, Akajiobi claimed that the consignment was handed to him at a bar in Port Harcourt, Rivers State, with directions to ship it to a good friend in Spain for a price of €5,000.
In a associated improvement, the NDLEA additionally arrested one Makinde Sodiq Lekan in reference to the seizure of 99 parcels of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish weighing 51.60 kilograms, which arrived on the SAHCO Imports shed of Lagos airport on a Turkish Airways flight from Canada through Istanbul, Turkey.
In the meantime, a particular operations unit concentrating on drug syndicates has apprehended Chukwuemaka Obodozie, a kingpin concerned in smuggling giant consignments of opioids. He was arrested at Cele bus cease alongside Oshodi-Apapa specific highway, Lagos, with 100,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg in two luggage shortly after arriving from Ghana. This intelligence-led operation adopted 5 months of surveillance.
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In one other operation, NDLEA operatives raided Owena Forest in Oriade LGA, Osun State, on Friday, July 26, 2024, ensuing within the destruction of 31,250 kilograms of hashish on 12.5 hectares of farmland and the arrest of 17 suspects. Among the many objects recovered have been 84 kilograms of processed hashish sativa and a single-barrel Dane gun. The arrested suspects embody: Peter Osuya, 51; Zebron Ode, 46; Dogo Reuben Matthew, 35; Isaac Terna; Joseph David Lawrence, 27; Ugochukwu Victory, 24; Olamilekan Abolarin, 26; Dele Ayibo, 44; Ojo Moses, 21; Nini Ayila, 27; Msughve Clement, 23; Chuks Ogeneku, 40; Dada Aribo, 20; Uche Endurance, 30; Patrick Agba, 21; Osakwe Kennedy, 45; and Ojo Babatunde, 29.
In Kaduna State, NDLEA operatives intercepted a 32-year-old lady, Ubaida Aliyu, throughout a stop-and-search patrol alongside the Kaduna-Zaria freeway on Saturday, July 27, 2024. She was present in possession of 573 rounds of seven.60 stay ammunition, which she admitted have been meant for supply to bandits in Sokoto. Moreover, Godwin Udochukwu, 35, was arrested for possessing 25,000 ampoules of Pentazocine injection alongside the Kaduna-Zaria freeway, whereas Alkasim Mikailu, 35, was nabbed in Kano with 37,880 ampoules of Diazepam injection.
Additional arrests included Abioye Adeniyi, 39, and Rafiu Lekan, 41, with 55 jumbo wraps of Ghana Loud on Badagry-Seme highway, Lagos, and Samson Ifeayi Egwutouhi, 30, who was caught with 20 blocks of compressed hashish sativa weighing 10.5 kilograms on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway. In Bauchi State, Suleiman Yahaya, 50, and Ibrahim Bello (a.okay.a Particular), 35, have been arrested with 315 blocks of hashish sativa weighing 204.75 kilograms alongside the Maiduguri bye-pass.
The NDLEA additionally continued its Conflict Towards Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation actions in colleges, worship facilities, workplaces, and communities throughout the nation. These efforts included lectures at Authorities Secondary College, Gada, Sokoto State; Holy Trinity Major College, Aroje, Ogbomoso, Oyo State; Holy Harmless Juniorate, Nkpor Onitsha, Anambra State; Authorities Christian Secondary College, Shuwa Madagali, Adamawa State; and for business motorbike riders in Badagry, Lagos State.
Reacting to the developments, chairman/chief government officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), recommended the officers and males of the Particular Operations Unit, MMIA, Osun, Bauchi, Kogi, Seme, and Kaduna Instructions for his or her efforts. He praised their relentless struggle towards drug cartels and expressed satisfaction with the steadiness of drug provide discount and demand discount actions, urging them to proceed their commendable work.
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