…AS 24,311KG HEROIN, CODEINE INTERCEPTED AT LAGOS AIRPORT, TINCAN SEAPORT
By Okosun Dennis
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 20-year-old graduate, Miss Bee Okoro for producing and selling drugged candies and cookies and a 27-year-old dispatch rider, Idewo Raimi, who handles door-to-door delivery for her.
Both suspects were arrested at Garki Area 11, Abuja on Friday, September 10, 2021, with a number of their drugged products and 400grams of Loud and Arizona. They confessed that they have been in the drug business for over a year.
Also, in a fresh drug bust, the operatives of the NDLEA seized over 24,311 kilograms of heroin, codeine as well as Arizona and Colorado variants of cannabis at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja and the Tincan Seaport, Apapa, Lagos State.
The seizure is coming barely a week after the agency, had intercepted N6 billion worth of Amphetamine, popularly known as jihadists’ drug at the Apapa port in Lagos.
It was learnt that the first seizure came on Friday, September 3, 2021, at the SAHCO export shed of the MMIA where two consignments containing 10.350kg heroin and 25.2kg cannabis from South Africa were intercepted.
In series of sting operations in different parts of Lagos, between Saturday, September 4 and Monday, September 6, four suspects were arrested including Mrs. Bello Kafayat Ayo who was picked from Shino Street, Palmgroove area of the state.
At the Tincan seaport, Apapa, narcotic officers intercepted a 40ft container loaded with 22,590 kilograms of Barcadin Codeine syrup on Monday, September 6, following intelligence received from international partners on the container since May 2021.
The container was also found to include 4,020.03kg of analgesic tablets and 47 cartons of insulated hot pots used to conceal the illicit drugs, all imported from India.
According to Femi Babafemi, Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, in a statement on Sunday said that on Friday, September 10, a consignment of Colorado weighing 17.5kg and hidden inside a Grand Caravan Dodge vehicle shipped in a 40ft container from Montreal, Canada, was also intercepted and seized at the Tincan port.
In Edo state, a total of 1,425.2 kilograms of compressed blocks of cannabis Sativa were seized in a raid on Aviosi outskirt, close to Uzebba, Owan west LGA, on Monday, September 6, while on the same day one Yahaya Mamman was nabbed along Zaria-Danja road, Kaduna with 10.3kg Tramadol and 60.5kg Exol-6.
The previous day, Sunday, September 5, one ThankGod Danladi was arrested at Tudun Wada area of Jalingo, Taraba Sstate capital with 44.2kg of cannabis.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives in Kwara state on Tuesday, September 7, arrested a 36-year-old lady, Yusuf Sherifat who recently completed a jail sentence following her conviction by a Federal High Court in Ilorin for dealing in 22 grams of crack cocaine.
Her latest arrest along Specialist Hospital Road, Alagbado, Ilorin, followed intelligence that she has resumed the sale of crack cocaine in the Ilorin metropolis. This time around, she devised another means of delivering drugs along the road to known customers who contact her via telephone calls.
In Gombe State, raids across the state between Wednesday, September 1 and Friday, September 10, led to the arrest of at least nine drug dealers who are into assorted illicit drugs weighing over 150kg were recovered. One of such was the interception of a DAF truck loaded with 128kg of psychotropic substances coming from Onitsha, Anambra State along Gombe-Yola Road.
In his reaction to the latest drug busts at the Lagos airport, Tincan seaport, and across the FCT, Edo, Kaduna, Taraba, Kwara and Gombe States, Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the commanders, officers and men of the commands for their resilience and bravery.
He said the series of arrests and seizures across the country further affirm NDLEA’s zero tolerance for production, trafficking and abuse of any illicit substance, warning that drug dealers who are yet to have a change of heart must be ready to contend with the new NDLEA.
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