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N4.8billion worth of opioids recovered as NDLEA raids drug warehouse in Lagos

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August 20, 2023
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Multi-billion naira worth of illicit drugs were again seized at a warehouse tucked in the midst of popular International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo area of Lagos State by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Saturday, August 19.

This was disclosed by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, August 20.

The illicit drugs recovered from the warehouse owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron include 1.4 million pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 826kg; 3.2 million pills of codeine with gross weight of 3,360kg; and 2,841 cartons of codeine syrup containing 284,100 bottles with 28,410 litres of the psychoactive substance, with a combined street value of N4.82 billion.

According to Babafemi, during the operation which lasted hours, a suspect, Paulinus Ojukwu, who is Chief Security Officer to the wanted drug baron parading himself as automobile spare parts dealer, was arrested and now assisting ongoing investigation.

The latest drug warehouse bust is coming on the heels of the arrest of a drug baroness, Faith Ebele Nwankwo, who was nabbed on Wednesday, August 9 with 2.75 million pills of tramaking, a brand of tramadol 225mg and 250mg recovered from her residence at House 6, C Close, 3rd Avenue, Festac area of Lagos and a warehouse located at Plot 3432, Sola Akinsola Street, Divine Estate, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.

He stated further that NDLEA operatives intercepted $20 million suspected to be counterfeit during a stop-and-search operation along Abaji-Lokoja road, within the Federal Capital Territory.

The suspected fake money was recovered from a bus coming from Lagos to Abuja, while the 53-year-old driver of the vehicle, Onyebuchi Nlededin was arrested. The previous day, Thursday, August 17, Jude Ndubuisi, aged 52, was arrested with 2.2 kilogrammes of methamphetamine during a raid operation at Kabusa village, FCT.

The suspect was said to have been initially arrested with 20.75kg cannabis on July 7, 2022 and was on court bail following his ongoing prosecution when he was nabbed for yet another drug crime.

Another raid of two notorious drug joints within the FCT — Dei Dei and Tora-Bora Hills — led to the recovery of 82.8kg skunk, 1.8kg rohypnol and 1.2kg diazepam on Wednesday, August 16.

In Osun, NDLEA operatives in the early hours of Saturday, August 19, destroyed clusters of cannabis farms measuring about 3.49000 hectares (over 7.5 tons) at Mopatedo in Ifedayo Local Government Area of the state. Two suspects – Sunday Otogbo, 40, and Peter Andel Makra, 35, – were arrested inside the cannabis farms.

Additional 30kg cannabis weeds and 16.9kg of cannabis seeds were also recovered from the farms.

In addition, at least, three suspects – Ndubuisi Okorie, 44; Ebilima Emmanuel, 38, and Okechukwu Anthony Smart, 40, – were arrested in connection with the seizure of 168kg cannabis consignment from them when their vehicle was intercepted along Owerri-Onitsha expressway, Imo State on Saturday, August 19. Another shipment of controlled drugs containing 6,000 capsules of tramadol, 1,200 tablets of swinol, 155 bottles of codeine syrup and 20 tabs of Molly was equally seized on the same road on Sunday, August 13, while a follow-up operation in Oyigbo area of Port Harcourt, Rivers state led to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Remigius Ogechukwu, 33.

A teenager, Boniface Odinakachukwu, 19, was apprehended with 99.4kg skunk at Isikwe Road, Achi in Oji-River LGA, Enugu state on Friday, August 18, while a wanted teenage bandit, Aliyu Mohammed Altine, 19, was arrested by NDLEA operatives along Illela-Sokoto road with some wraps of skunk on Thursday, August 17. The suspect, who is on the wanted list of the police, had since been transferred to the police in Sokoto State for further investigation.

Expressing his satisfaction with the professional conduct of the officers and men involved in the Lagos, FCT, Sokoto, Osun, Imo and Enugu operations as well as the results of the raids, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) charged operatives of the Lagos command to ensure that the fleeing baron is smoked out of his hiding to face charges.

He urged them and their colleagues across the country to intensify the heat on drug cartels.

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