“As NDLEA nabs another at Abuja airport, intercepts skunk consignments at Tincan, meth in soap bars at courier firm; seizes 778, 190 pills of tramadol, others in Taraba”

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a businessman, Kingsley Celestino on the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, over 9.40 kilograms of heroin hid in false bottoms of his two travelling luggage.

A Press Release by Femi Babafemi, the Agency’s Director, Media & Advocacy, mentioned Kingsley, a enterprise class passenger on Qatar Airline flight, was arrested at Terminal 2 of the MMIA on Saturday 4th March on his strategy to India. Though a local of Nnewi South Local Government Area of Anambra State, the 49-year-old was travelling with a Guinean International Passport.

Preliminary investigation revealed that the suspect ceaselessly travels to India on enterprise class tickets. He claimed he offers in clothes enterprise between Nigeria and India.  It was additional established that he obtained the Guinean International Passport in Guinea Bissau, the place he mentioned his mom got here from.

In the identical vein, a 24-year-old passenger travelling to Oman, Etounu Monday, was intercepted on the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on Monday twenty seventh February

throughout the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight ET 950 whereas making an attempt to export 1.924kg of skunk hid in cream tubes.

At the Tincan seaport, Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Friday third March, recovered 244 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 79 kilograms hid in medium measurement picket sound system audio system packed inside two out of 4 used autos in a container marked CRSU9258348 coming from Toronto by way of Montreal, Canada. The imported autos used as cowl for the medication are a 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2009 Honda Ridgeline.

Similarly, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, hooked up to courier corporations in Lagos intercepted a consignment of 9 parcels of methamphetamine hid in native black cleaning soap, Dudu Osun, heading to Europe.

No fewer than 778,190 capsules of pharmaceutical opioids together with tramadol and a drum of 270kg Methylene Chloride have been recovered by operatives from a suspect, Eric Pepe Yohanna, 33, in Jalingo, Taraba state on Monday twenty seventh Feb following credible intelligence. Also seized from him is a Daylong tricycle utilized in distributing the illicit substances.

In Adamawa State, the home of a needed infamous drug seller, Mamudu Njobdi at Sebore, Gyalla highway Dougada ward, Mubi was raided within the early hours of Monday twenty seventh Feb the place he was arrested and drug reveals recovered. The 31-year-old suspect was earlier arrested on Wednesday twenty second Feb at his drug joint in Kolere water board however mobilized thugs to assault NDLEA officers and within the course of escaped with reveals.

While a suspect, Geoffrey Okpani, 31, was arrested at Bukuru space of Jos, Plateau state with 27.45kg of hashish, Ajayi Tope, 30, was arrested on Saturday 4th March at Area 5 Ile-Ife, in Ife south native authorities space of Osun state with 18kg of similar substance.

In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Friday third March raided De-Niche Hotel & Suites, Omole property, Ojodu Ikeja the place 24 suspects have been arrested and totally different portions of illicit medication recovered from them.

Reacting to the arrests and seizures of the previous week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) counseled the officers, women and men of MMIA, NAIA, Tincan, Taraba, Adamawa, Plateau, Osun and Lagos Commands in addition to DOGI for his or her efforts. He charged them and their counterparts throughout the nation to accentuate the continuing mop up operations to disclaim political thugs entry to illicit substances forward of the Governorship and House of Assembly elections this weekend.