….Arrests Canadian girl with 35.20kg of Loud at Lagos airport
By: Kingsley Omonobi
Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, operatives have intercepted 13.298 million tablets of Opioids, together with Tramadol, Tramaking Fast Motion Tramadol, Tamol-X, Royal Tapentadol and Carisoprodol, in addition to 338,253, bottles of codeine-based cough syrup, on the Port Harcourt Ports, Onne in Rivers State.
An announcement by Femi Babafemi, Spokesman of NDLEA stated the medication have been value over N9.017billion in road worth.
“The opioids have been recovered in three containers coming from India, focused by the NDLEA throughout a 100 per cent joint examination of the cargoes with males of the Nigerian Customs and different port stakeholders on October 3 and 4, 2024.
“Equally, NDLEA operatives on the Tincan seaport in Lagos on October 3, intercepted 100 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 50kg.
“The consignment was packed in 20 parcels every in 5 jumbo luggage hid in a container with 4 items of imported automobiles that got here from Canada.
“Although the container had earlier been cleared out of the ESS Libra Bonded Terminal in Ikorodu, Lagos, however based mostly on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives have been capable of hint it to a warehouse in Ikorodu, the place the illicit consignments have been found in one of many imported automobiles, a Toyota Sienna bus.
“A suspect, Abubakar Ibrahim has already been taken into custody in reference to the seizure.
“Equally, Babafemi stated a 41 12 months previous Canadian girl, Adrienne Munju has been arrested by operatives of NDLEA, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja, Lagos, for importing massive consignment of ‘Canadian Loud’, a powerful pressure of artificial hashish.
“The suspect was arrested through the inward clearance of passengers on KLM airline flight from Canada on the terminal 1 of the Lagos airport on October 3, 2024.
“Throughout a joint examination of her three luggage, Adrienne, who was coming to Nigeria for the primary time was discovered with 74 parcels of the illicit substance weighing 35.20 kilograms stuffed in two of her three luggage.
“In her assertion, she claimed she was recruited to visitors the consignment by a web based platform for 10,000 Canadian {dollars} upon profitable supply in Lagos.
“She stated she took the provide as a result of she wanted the cash to pay for her ongoing grasp’s diploma programme in Canada.
In Taraba, NDLEA officers on October 3, intercepted a industrial bus marked JAL 198 YQ coming from Onitsha, Anambra State to Jalingo.
“Giant portions of opioids: tramadol, rohypnol and codeine-based syrup hid in physique compartments of the car have been recovered when it was searched, whereas two suspects: Pako Thomas and Emmanuel Anyigor have been arrested.
“One other suspect, Chibuzor Okafor was arrested at Wukari on October 2, with 80 blocks of hashish weighing 38kg hidden in luggage of garri.
“In Lagos, a suspect Bolanle Ajenifuja was on October 4, arrested at Afo – Media space of Ojo, the place 700 litres of skuchies, a combination of native chapman and cocktail of illicit medication have been recovered from her.
“Three suspects: Ezekiel Akpele; Elijah Michael; and Goddard John, have been nabbed similar day when NDLEA operatives raided two hashish farms positioned at bridge camp, a boundary group between Edo and Ondo states.
“Not lower than 9,966.332kg of the substance was destroyed on over three hectares of farmland with 48kg of the already processed psychoactive substance recovered.”