Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, said based on credible intelligence, operatives laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance, weighing 2,434.1kg, along the Epe-Lekki express way.
According to him, the truck driver, however, jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security hilux van escorting the truck. Thereafter, the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilised the truck conveying the drug exhibits.
Similarly, officers of the Marine Command of the Agency, who were acting on intelligence, intercepted, on Tuesday, June 20, a boat loaded with the same imported substance, weighing 2,910kg, around Alfa Beach as the consignment arrived from Ghana.
Two Ghanaians: Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, both of whom were found with the consignments, were promptly arrested.
In a related development, two suspects in Niger state, Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were arrested on Sunday, June 18, along Abuja expressway, Suleja, with 31 jumbo bags of skunk, weighing 517kg, while a 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday, June 21, at Ogbogodo village, Dekina LGA, Kogi state, Mr Babafemi disclosed.
Also, a suspected fake female security agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was nabbed at Ajegunle Asa Dam Area of Ilorin, Kwara State, with 30kg of cannabis on Thursday, June 22, while in Oyo state, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 49.2kg of same substance on Saturday, June 24, in Oyo town.
In the same vein, operatives in Edo state stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects, namely: Onyeka Onyedinma; Monday Onyedi; Alex Eboh; Edosa Imariagbe; Godbless Tunde, and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday, June 19.
Commending officers and men of the Lagos, Kogi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo, Edo and Marine Commands for preventing more than five tons of illicit substances from going into circulation across the country in the past week, Chairman of the Agency, Buba Marwa charged them and their compatriots across other formations to remain committed to the corporate goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.
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