…Intercepts 3.1m pills of opioids in Kano
A 50-year-old Brazil-based Nigerian businessman, has been detained by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) for allegedly importing 700g of cocaine.
The NDLEA’s spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that operatives of the agency on Friday Nov. 29, arrested and detained the suspect at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos.
He said that the suspect, who had lived in Brazil for 35 years, returned home with the cocaine buried in his stomach.
This, he said was a discovery made following his arrest by NDLEA operatives.
Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested at the E-Arrival hall of the Lagos airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil on Ethiopia Airlines flight via Addis Ababa.
“When he was taken for body scan, the result confirmed that the suspect had foreign objects concealed in his stomach.
“As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled 29 wraps of substances that tested positive to cocaine weighing 700grams.
“In his statement, the suspect claimed he operates an African store in Brazil where he sells provisions, shoes and clothes.”
He explained that he bought the illicit consignment in Sao Paulo to resell in Nigeria with a view to raising substantial capital to boost his business.
Meanwhile, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Investigation and General Investigation, (DOGI), on Nov. 26 intercepted two consignments containing cocaine and pentazocine injection.
Babafemi said that the consignments were going to the UK via a courier company in Lagos.
“While the cocaine weighing 200g was concealed in local fabrics, 40 ampoules of pentazocine injection weighing 110grams were hidden in cartons,”he said.(
.intercepts 3.1mi pills of opioids in Kano
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested three suspected drug dealers with 2,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection as 3.1 million pills exol-5 in Gadar Tamburawa in Kano State.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi said this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said the suspects aged 38, 32 and 27, were arrested on Thursday.
He also said that no fewer than 2, 120kg of Ghanaian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis produced in Ghana were intercepted by NDLEA operatives at the Ilesan beach, Lagos on Thursday.
“A suspect, was arrested in connection with the seizure while four vehicles that were to convey the shipments from the water front were also recovered.
“This came on the heels of the seizure of 472kg of the same psychoactive substance at Idi-Iroko, Imeko area of Ogun state on Nov. 25.
In another development, he said two suspects: were apprehended in Benin with 185.6kg cannabis.
He said that operatives recovered a Toyota Previa bus marked BEN 06XL conveying the consignment during an intelligence-led raid by NDLEA operatives at Ukuwague street, Benin city.
Babafemi quoted the NDLEA Chairman, retired, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa as commending the officers and men of Lagos, Kano, and Edo Commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts were well appreciated
