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According to a statement issued by NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi on Sunday, the suspect, a grandmother, was apprehended on December 6 on Odunfa Street in Lagos Island LGA.
The agency disclosed that 20.6 litres of codeine-based syrup were found in the suspect’s possession at the time of arrest.
The NDLEA also took Egwu Phillip Inya into custody for allegedly attempting to collect 7.40 kg of Loud, a synthetic variant of cannabis, hidden inside three pressure machines.
Babafemi stated that the suspect, who claimed to be a building engineer, was apprehended on December 2 at the Okeyson motor park in Enugu.
“The consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November 2024,” the statement reads.
“Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA strategic command of the agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.
“The importer, however, changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow-up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments.”
On December 6, the NDLEA recovered at least 511,000 tramadol pills from a Siena car at Hildi, Askira Uba Way in Adamawa.
Operatives on patrol observed the car’s occupants take a detour after seeing the NDLEA team and, after a distance, abandoned the vehicle with the consignments after realising they were being followed.
“In Ekiti state, two suspects: Olanrewaju Alale, 48, and Babatunde Kayode Ijadahun, 55, were arrested along Ise- Emure road in a J5 bus marked EPE 958 XJ while transporting 108 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1, 323 kilograms to Owo, Ondo state from where they claimed the consignment will be moved to the North for distribution. Another suspect, Adekunle Yusuf, 33, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives with 704 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance, concealed in white sacks on Friday 6th December at Idere road, Igboora, Oyo state,” the statement reads.
“Also arrested in Lagos was Alhaji Lawan Manga, who was picked at Ogundana Street, Ikeja on Thursday 5th December, while 4.7kg cannabis and 1.3kg tramadol were recovered from him.”
