NDLEA Intercepts Large Shipment Of Cannabis Concealed In Loudspeakers At Lagos Airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted a large shipment of Loud, a synthetic strong strain of cannabis, concealed in giant loudspeakers tucked inside a consolidated cargo imported from New York, United States of America.

According to a statement released on Sunday by the anti-narcotics agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, when the giant wooden boxes dressed as sound speakers seized by NDLEA officers at the Lagos airport’s NAHCO import shed were opened, the sound boxes were stuffed with 60 bags of the expensive but highly sought-after psychoactive substance, Loud, weighing 33.5 kilogrammes.

Babafemi stated that at least three suspects, a goods agent Akeem Afeez, a logistics company manager Babalola Ayodeji Gboyega, and the consignment receiver Taiwo Anuoluwapo, were apprehended in follow-up operations between last Thursday and Friday. Afeez was apprehended at the airport, Gboyega was apprehended at his office on Allen Avenue Ikeja, and Taiwo was tracked down to his home at 13 Ayo Babatunde Crescent, Lekki Phase 1, Lagos, where he was apprehended on

The spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, said in Abia, that a joint raid operation between the NDLEA and men of the State Homeland Security at 23 Arochukwu Street, Umuahia around 11 pm last Wednesday led to the arrest of a female lawyer, Adaobi Nweke, 36; her boyfriend, Emeka Nkemefola, 36; her mother, Mrs. Ngozi Nweke, 65; Dike Okpara, 43, who is a herbalist to the family; Chukwudi Abel, 33, a member of the family; Amarachi Paul, 18, another member of the family and their 22-year

He stated that investigations revealed that family members had long been involved in the illicit drug trade, which had been passed down to them by their deceased father, Jonathan Nweke. He stated that investigations revealed that family members had long been involved in the illicit drug trade, which had been passed down to them by their deceased father, Jonathan Nweke.

Babafemi also disclosed that an attempt by a 25-year-old Uber driver, Joshua Henry to deliver a consignment of 26.2 grammes of Loud picked in Abuja to a customer in Keffi, Nasarawa state last Monday was thwarted by NDLEA operatives who intercepted him. In the same vein, 54-year-old Dada Adedara was last Wednesday arrested at the Dan Bare area of Kano State with 468 blocks of cannabis weighing 246.4 kilogrammes. On the same day, operatives in Ogun state arrested the duo of Kafayat Junaid and Sakirat Osoanu with 13 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa.

In Kogi state, a suspect, Charles Chike, 45, was arrested by NDLEA operatives in a hotel in Lokoja last Friday with 290 blocks of compressed cannabis weighing 116 kilogrammes. The exhibit was concealed in the boot of a blue Honda Accord car marked Abuja ABC 853 SL, which took off from somewhere in Ekiti state en route Abuja. Not less than 227 kilogrammes of the same substance were recovered from the Atoshi camp in Emure-Ile, Owo local government area, Ondo State, and two suspects, John Jonathan and Emmanuel Alex, were arrested.

According to Babafemi, operatives in Edo state acting on intelligence intercepted a methamphetamine shipment from Onitsha, Anambra state, to Lagos last Wednesday in a Toyota Sienna bus bearing the registration number Anambra NZM 347 ZL. The 0.966-kilogramme meth consignment was hidden inside a cassava-based local food item known as “Abacha,” an African salad. The vehicle’s driver, Afamefuna Ibeawuchi, 42, was arrested in connection with the seizure. On the same day, NDLEA officers intercepted a Peugeot 406 space wagon driven by Akhere Fardam, 47, on Uromi Road in Esan Northeast Local Government Area. A search of the vehicle yielded 865 bottles of codeine, 2,600 tramadol pills, and 600 swinol and Rohypnol tablets.

In Abuja, the Federal Capital Territory, NDLEA agents conducted raids in the Kubwa area, arresting Tawa Wasiu, 47, and Iliya Ibrahim, 18, with 10.5 kilogrammes of cannabis, 13.5 grammes of diazepam, and 2.9 grammes of tramadol tablets. Another suspect, Yaro Bala, 27, was arrested on Thursday, February 15th, with 50.5 kilograms of cannabis during a stop and search operation on the Abaji/Abuja highway on his way from Auchi, Edo State, to Paiko, Niger State.

He also stated that the agency’s various commands throughout the country
The War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign has continued over the last week.

Meanwhile, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Buba Marwa (Retd), while commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Abia, Nasarawa, Edo, Kogi, Kano, Ogun, Ondo, and FCT commands of the agency for their outstanding feats in the past week, equally applauded their counterparts in all the commands across the country for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures, thus creating a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction.