NDLEA arrests wanted suspect at Lagos airport, nabs Beninoise with codeine

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a fleeing suspect, Onyejiuwa Prince Ifeanyi, who has gone into hiding since September 8 following the seizure of a United Kingdom-bound 20kg cannabis consignment concealed in tomato pastes tins and linked to him at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State.

Ifeanyi was arrested at the airport on Friday, December 8, 2023.

The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure in a statement on Sunday, December 10.

He added that the operatives of the Seaports Operations of the NDLEA, on Monday, December 4, arrested a 45-year-old Beninoise, Jamila Fatiu, at Ebute Ero Jetty in Lagos Island with 398 bottles of codeine cough syrup on her way to Seme border via a boat service.

Babafemi stated that three suspects – Monday John, 50; Maryam Adang, 48; and Mohammed Lawal Musa, 36 – were arrested in different parts of Kaduna State.

“While John was arrested with 28.4kg cannabis on Thursday 7th December, Maryam was nabbed with 18.6kg of same substance on Saturday 9th December, same day Musa, an indigene of Damagaran, Niger Republic was arrested with 34 kilograms of cannabis sativa along Abuja- Kaduna highway while he was on his way to Niger Republic with the exhibit,” the NDLEA spokesman disclosed.

He noted that the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaign of the agency continued in equal measure in schools, markets, worship places, and others across the country in the past week.

Babafemi listed the advocacy campaign to include WADA town hall sensitisation lecture by Zone N command in conjunction with the Rivers State command of NDLEA for principals of secondary schools in Rivers State; WADA sensitisation lecture at Community Basic School, Abojupa Idi Igba Ilora, Oyo State; WADA advocacy lecture for students of Obalaoye Junior and Senior Secondary School, Ede, Osun State; students of Government Secondary School, Michika, Adamawa; WADA sensitisation town hall meeting with principals of secondary schools in Cross River State; WADA sensitization lecture at Government Girls Day Secondary School, Gusau, Zamfara State; and same lecture for traders at Cow Market, Awka, Anambra State.

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