Crimes

NDLEA seizes imported drugs in Lagos, arrests 2 Ghanaians

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki expressway and at the Alfa Beach in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, June 25.

Babafemi stated that the NDLEA operatives, while acting on credible intelligence, laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2,434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday, June 19.

He noted that the truck driver, however, jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilised the truck conveying the drug exhibits.

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The NDLEA spokesperson disclosed that the officers of the Marine Command of the anti-drug agency, on Tuesday, June 20, while also acting on intelligence intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported Loud weighing 2,910kg around the Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana.

He added that two Ghanaians – Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27 – who were found with the consignments were arrested by the NDLEA officers.

In his reaction, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), charged the anti-narcotics officers and their compatriots across other formations to remain committed to the corporate goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.

The Star

Segun Ojo

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