The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has reported the arrest of a 40-year-old businessman named Ejike Chibuke Solomon.
Solomon was caught with 1.45 kilograms of cocaine hidden in his luggage at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja.
According to Femi Babafemi, the spokesperson for NDLEA, Solomon was about to board an Ethiopia Airlines flight to Vietnam via Addis Ababa on March 2 when NDLEA officers conducted a thorough search and found the illegal substance hidden in his bag.
Babafemi mentioned that the suspect claimed he was traveling to Vietnam for business purposes.
Additionally, on March 1, NDLEA operatives from a special unit of the agency raided the hideouts of a syndicate involved in the trafficking of methamphetamine, cocaine, and heroin in various parts of Lagos.
“The operatives assigned for the operation raided the home of Esimone Amachukwu Christopher at 14 Arochukwu street, Ejigbo, where 10.012 kilograms of methamphetamine was found in possession of his associate, 40-year-old Evelyn Nneka Okem. Esimone is currently at large,” the statement reads.
“While the Ejigbo operation was going on, another set of officers were simultaneously busy in the residence of another member of the syndicate, 45-year-old Ebele Edwin Iwuegbunam, located at Plot 1604 Close D, 4th Avenue, Festac town, Lagos where they arrested him and recovered 429.5grams of cocaine and 7 kilograms of heroin.
“In Kogi state, NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Friday 1st March intercepted a commercial bus marked GRM 347XA (Borno) conveying 28 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing Ilk; 100 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup and 500 tablets of diazepam, all concealed in three plastic drums covered with cattle fats, heading to Jos, Plateau state.
“While operatives in Ogun state on Thursday 29th February recovered 169kg consignment of cannabis abandoned in a truck at Sagamu tollgate, their counterparts in Lagos seized 25 cartons of tramadol containing 325,000 pills in Ikeja the previous day Wednesday 28th Feb.”
The statement also mentioned that the agency confiscated illegal substances in Kano and Borno states.
“Same day, a suspect, Abdullahi Garba Khalil, 42, and 2,745,000 capsules of pregabalin recovered from him at Singer market, Sabon Gari area of Kano were handed over to the Kano state command of NDLEA by the Department of State Security, DSS,” he said.
“In the same vein, the 243 Recce Battalion, Nigerian Army, Badagry on Saturday 2nd March, transferred 27 sacks of cannabis sativa weighing 1,110kg recovered at a coastal community, Ajido by soldiers, to the Seme Special Area Command of NDLEA.
“A suspect, Hassan Muhammad, 34, was on Saturday 2nd March arrested with 44,950 pills of tramadol at Moranti area of Borno state by NDLEA operatives.”
