One of the exhibits. Photo: NDLEA
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says its operatives intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in a local mortar and the false bottom of a backpack meant for shipment to China and Italy through a Lagos logistics company.
This is just as the agency said it arrested four suspects in multiple operations across the country.
The agency spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed in a statement on Sunday that officers of its Directorate of Operations and General Investigations seized the cocaine on Thursday.
Babafemi noted that 250 grammes of cocaine were factory-fitted into the base of a local mortar packaged for export to China, while another 500 grammes were hidden in the false bottom of a backpack destined for Italy.
He stated that operatives in Rivers State arrested a 38-year-old suspected drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, following intelligence reports.
“The suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol and codeine syrup at the time of his arrest on Sunday, 26th July,” the statement added.
Babafemi noted that operatives in Anambra State intercepted a truck with registration number XK 131 BDG at the DMGS Roundabout in Onitsha on July 27 and recovered 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960 kilogrammes.
He added that the truck driver, Chinedu Nwanze, 40, was arrested.
He added that the operatives also recovered 331.84 kilogrammes of skunk from a Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KUJ 26 DV along the Kwale-Ughelli Expressway in Delta State on July 26.
In Nasarawa State, Babafemi stated that a 64-year-old suspect, Joseph Nwaeke, was arrested on July 28 at Asso Angwan Muazu in the Karu area with 68 kilogrammes of skunk and 29 grammes of methamphetamine.
Also, along the Zaria-Gusau Highway in Zamfara State, NDLEA operatives intercepted a 27-year-old suspect, Sani Umar, on July 27 with 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg, believed to be supplies for criminal elements.
The spokesperson added that the agency’s commands across the country continued the War Against Drug Abuse campaign through sensitisation programmes in schools, communities, worship centres and motor parks.
Commending the officers involved in the operations, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa, urged personnel nationwide to sustain the agency’s balanced approach to drug supply and demand reduction efforts.
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