70 Year Old Man Nabbed With 57.2kg of Cannabis.
Muhammadu Ibrahim, a 70-year-old grandpa, was apprehended by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents in Nasarawa State carrying 57.2 kg of cannabis.
At the Port Harcourt seaports and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, the agency also found almost N2.1 billion worth of codeine-based syrup and Loud, a synthetic cannabis strain.
Two individuals in Ekiti State who had 426 kg of cannabis were also taken into custody by anti-drug agents.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA's Director of Media and Advocacy, announced this in a statement on Sunday, June 2. Other arrests were also made by the anti-narcotics agency in the states of Nasarawa, Katsina, and FATC.
“Large consignments of codeine-based syrup and Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis worth over N2.1bn in street value have been intercepted at the Port Harcourt seaports, Onne and the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
At the Lagos airport, the NDLEA officers with the cooperation of other security agencies on Friday, May 31, 2024, intercepted a large consignment of Loud, packed in eight suitcases, containing 320 parcels with a total weight of 164.50kg of the strong psychoactive substance coming from Canada on a KLM flight via Amsterdam, Netherlands.
The consignment estimated to be worth N960m which was brought in by a passenger, Ughenu Nnaife Francis, was discovered at the E-arrival hall of the airport by personnel of the NDLEA, customs and others during a joint search operation by the security operatives while the suspect was attempting to smuggle the suitcases out of the hall.”
The statement said that the person detained at the Lagos airport was hired to smuggle drugs from Canada into Nigeria in exchange for N6 million.
The defendant claimed to be a resident of Germany, but he went to Toronto to pick up the drugs. He was apprehended in possession of a sizable shipment of N960 million's worth of synthetic cannabis strain Loud.
In the meantime, NDLEA agents at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex apprehended a container from India that contained 1,750 codeine cartons, each weighing 26,250 kg and costing N1.225 billion.
The NDLEA, customs, and other security services conducted a combined examination and found the container, marked TEMU 6807401, which was headed for Enugu.
On May 31, the agents also took into custody Blessing Thomas, a 25-year-old resident of Abuja, after discovering 1 kg of methamphetamine in her hands. She was apprehended near the Kwali-Gwagwalada Motorway while going by bus from Lagos to Yola, Adamawa State.
The defendant claimed to be a resident of Germany, but he went to Toronto to pick up the drugs. He was apprehended in possession of a sizable shipment of N960 million's worth of synthetic cannabis strain Loud.
In the meantime, NDLEA agents at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex apprehended a container from India that contained 1,750 codeine cartons, each weighing 26,250 kg and costing N1.225 billion.
The NDLEA, customs, and other security services conducted a combined examination and found the container, marked TEMU 6807401, which was headed for Enugu.
On May 31, the agents also took into custody Blessing Thomas, a 25-year-old resident of Abuja, after discovering 1 kg of methamphetamine in her hands. She was apprehended near the Kwali-Gwagwalada Motorway while going by bus from Lagos to Yola, Adamawa State.
“Two suspects: Suleiman Kazeem, 35, and Sunday Gbenga, 20, were arrested when the NDLEA officers raided Ara forest, Ara-Ekiti in Ekiti State where they recovered 426 kilograms of cannabis sativa already processed and packed in big sacks, while they destroyed over 4,000kg of same substance on 1.66 hectares of farmland on Thursday, May 30.
In Katsina State, 76 blocks of cannabis weighing 42kg were seized from a Nigerien, Suleman Audu, 29, when he was arrested by the NDLEA officers along Zaria-Malumfashi Road on Wednesday, May 29.”
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