The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested two people, together with a businessman and an ex-convict, in separate makes an attempt to visitors illicit medicine to South Africa and Italy.
The company additionally seized over 1 million opioid tablets throughout coordinated operations throughout a number of states.
The arrests and seizures have been disclosed in an announcement by Femi Babafemi, Director, of Media & Advocacy, NDLEA, on Sunday, December 22, 2024.
In Lagos, NDLEA operatives foiled an try by ex-convict Olanrewaju Bada Akorede to export a consignment of Rohypnol to South Africa.
The medicine have been hidden in a cargo containing gari, footwear, and males’s singlets on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA).
“Olanrewaju was convicted for the same crime earlier this yr following his arrest on December 12, 2023, for making an attempt to ship 4.90kg of tramadol and a pair of.10kg of Rohypnol to South Africa,” Babafemi revealed.
The ex-convict had served a two-year sentence with an possibility of a N900,000 nice, which he paid earlier than returning to the identical crime.
Businessman caught with cocaine at Kano airport
Operatives on the Mallam Aminu Kano Worldwide Airport (MAKIA), Kano, intercepted Olisaka Chibuzo Calistus, a businessman, with 256 wraps of cocaine weighing 6 kilograms.
The arrest occurred on Sunday, December 15, through the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airways flight ET 941 from Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire, through Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
“That is the only largest interception of cocaine on the Kano airport because the creation of the MAKIA Command of NDLEA in 2006,” Babafemi said.
Olisaka, who claimed to be concerned in import and export, was subjected to physique screening, which revealed a whole bunch of cocaine pellets hid inside his physique.
Italy-bound businesswoman arrested
An Italy-based businesswoman, Cynthia Akaeen, was arrested on Wednesday, December 18, whereas making an attempt to board a Royal Air Maroc flight to Italy. She was discovered with 9,190 tramadol tablets weighing 6 kilograms.
Based on Babafemi, Cynthia confessed she was promised €1,000 upon profitable supply of the medicine in Italy.
Different seizures throughout states
Along with the arrests, NDLEA operatives performed raids in a number of states, resulting in important drug recoveries:
Anambra: 418,330 tablets of tramadol and tapentadol, and eight,000 bottles of codeine syrup from a warehouse in Onitsha.
Lagos: 180,000 bottles of codeine syrup from a container originating from India.
Borno: 293,000 capsules of tramadol, a pistol, and 26 rounds of ammunition have been seized from suspects Ishaya Wabba and Samaila Audu.
In Maiduguri, one other suspect, Modu Kolera, was arrested with 8.5kg of hashish, tramadol, diazepam, and different psychoactive substances.
The NDLEA Chairman, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), lauded the officers concerned within the operations, urging them to keep up their efforts.
“Let’s not relaxation on our oars as we intensify our balanced strategy to drug provide discount and drug demand discount efforts,” Marwa stated.
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