A wanted 60-year-old drug kingpin has been detained by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), ending a six-year spree of law-evasion.
Femi Babafemi, the director of media and advocacy for NDLEA, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
He claimed that the suspect had been caught trying to transport large amounts of cocaine and meth to the South-East and other regions of the nation.
The suspect, who has been wanted by NDLEA since 2019, was eventually apprehended on July 13 at his hideout in the Isheri neighborhood of Lagos.
Babafemi claimed this came after some of his consignments at 5:45 a.m. at Ilasamaja on the Apapa-Oshodi expressway were intercepted.
According to him, a team of NDLEA officers were using credible information to detain one of the kingpin’s couriers traveling in a white Toyota Sienna.
Babafemi claims that the agency’s sniffer dogs were later used to search the vehicle.
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He claimed that the vehicle’s body compartments contained 900 grams of methamphetamine and 7.6 kg of cocaine.
He claimed that the kingpin’s hideout in Isheri was immediately the site of a follow-up procedure.
He claimed that his home had recovered an additional 1. 8 kg of cocaine and 1. 3 kg of methamphetamine.
Babafemi added that 7, 790 tramadol and rhizonol pills were recovered by the NDLEA agents in a joint operation with the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria’s aviation security personnel.
Babafemi claimed on Wednesday that the drugs, which were in a passenger traveling from Italy, were intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
He claimed the suspect, who was taking the drugs on a Turkish Airlines flight from Istanbul to Italy, allegedly purchased them himself and planned to sell them there for higher prices.
According to Babafemi, NDLEA agents at the export shed intercepted 17 parcels of the cannabis strain skunk on Thursday in a further arrest at the Lagos airport.
The drugs, which weighed 1.70 kg, were hidden in cereal packs that were being shipped to Pakistan as a consolidated cargo, according to the anti-narcotics agency.
He claimed that in connection with the incident, a suspect had been detained.
On Wednesday, Babafemi reported that 45, 000 tramadol pills were seized from a 30-year-old suspect on the Onitsha-Enugu expressway in another development.
Babafemi remarked that two suspects with illegal drugs were apprehended by Taraba command officers the same day.
Source: Channels TV
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