20th November, 2022
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Sunday 13th November, thwarted attempts by a tricycle parts seller, Ayoade Kehinde Tayo to send 1kg of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol to Istanbul, Turkey via Cairo on an Egypt Airline flight.
NDLEA operatives also arrested Ayoade.
He was at the airport to hand over the drugs hidden inside a bag of food items to an intending passenger, Idowu Ayoade but was arrested before he succeeded in doing that.
An intending passenger to Oman via Asky airline, Agbamuche Bright Nkeonye, and a lady, Adeoye Oluwakemi Fatimo who accompanied him to present a bag containing varieties of foodstuffs and body lotion which were used to conceal 1.10kg Cannabis and some Rohypnol capsules were also arrested at the departure hall of the Lagos airport on Thursday 18th November.
In a related development, not less than 5.6 kilograms of methamphetamine, cocaine, and tramadol were discovered in items like PlayStation, bicycle, motor propeller, and local fabrics packaged for export to Australia and Cyprus through some courier firms in Lagos.
However, two suspects, Gabriel Emeka and Vintura Grillo have been arrested in a follow-up operation linked to one of the seizures.
In Ondo state, operatives stormed the Ijare forest, in Ifedore LGA on Friday 19th Nov where a total of 600.5kgs of cannabis weed and seeds were recovered.
142.8kgs of the same substance were seized when NDLEA officers raided the zone 3 motor park in Wuse area of Abuja.
In the same vein, operatives on routine stop and search patrol along Owerri-Onitsha road arrested a suspect Nwankwo Emmanuel, with 25 blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 12.5kgs in a commercial bus going to Port Harcourt from Lagos.
In his reaction to the arrests and seizures in the past week, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), CON, OFR, commended the officers for their passion, commitment, and remarkable efforts to get results in their areas of responsibility.