NDLEA intercepts Europe, UAE bound drugs

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted attempts by drug syndicates to export illicit substances, including various quantities of methamphetamine and opioids, concealed in hems of new jeans trousers, dolls, local soap and tins of the Milo beverage at some courier firms in Lagos State meant to be delivered to Europe and the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this on Sunday in a statement, said that a shipment of another illicit substance coming from Florida, USA, was also intercepted at a courier firm while the recipient, Daniel Ogi, was tracked and arrested at 5 Akeem Shittu Street, Ajao Estate, Lagos on Friday.

Also, operatives in Lagos on Friday 1st December arrested a drug kingpin, Okechukwu Ogala (56), who specialises in exploiting and recruiting young citizens to export meth to Asian countries.

In another operation in Lagos, operatives on December 1, recovered 393kg of hemp in a shop at Akala, Mushin, while a suspect, Justin Enuonye, who deals in Canadian Loud, was arrested by the police on Victoria Island and transferred to the Lagos Command of NDLEA on December 1, with 154 parcels weighing 92kg.”