A trans-border drug dealer, Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, with three drums of crystal methamphetamine, locally called Mkpuru Mmiri.
NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi in a statement issued on Sunday said they believed that the drugs were imported from India.
Babafemi said the consignment weighing 90 kilograms and loaded into a commercial bus with registration number RSH 691XC at Ojuelegba in Lagos, was intercepted during a stop and search operation along Umuahia – Ikot Ekpene highway on Saturday 6th August 2022.
“The dangerous drug packed 30kg in each drum was meant for Pastor Anietie Okon Effiong, who was arrested in a follow-up operation at Oron beach in Oron,” Babafemi said. “The recovered Meth drums were meant for onward delivery to the Republic of Cameroon”.
This drug bust comes on the heels of four seizures of the same illicit substance weighing 4.074kg going to Australia, Indonesia, and the Philippines with a 3kg cannabis sativa heading to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates at some courier companies in Lagos.
The NDLEA disclosed that the consignments were concealed in body cream, hot burner iron, and beads.
Also, in Sokoto, a 90-year-old retired soldier, Usman Adamu was arrested on Wednesday 3rd August in Mailalle, Sabon Birni LGA for supplying bandits illicit drugs.
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NDLEA revealed that at the time of his arrest, the suspect was caught with 5.1kg cannabis sativa.
Also at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, a 37-year-old indigene of Ovia LGA, Edo State, and resident in Italy; Solo Osamede was arrested for ingesting 41 wraps of heroin.
Osamede was nabbed and taken into custody for excretion while attempting to board a Turkish Airline flight to Milan, Italy via Istanbul, Turkey on Saturday 30th July.
“The swallowed wraps of the illicit drug were recovered in four excretions, which the suspect completed on Monday 1st Aug”, NDLEA said.
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In the same vein, a female passenger Jatau Lydia Lami was arrested at the Lagos airport for attempting to export 1,700 tablets of Tramadol 225mg concealed in her luggage to Istanbul, Turkey via a Turkish Airline flight on Sunday 31st July.
NDLEA’s preliminary investigation revealed that Lami, a mother of three, hails from Zango Kataf LGA, Kaduna State, and lives in Istanbul, Turkey with her family.
Babafemi said she blamed her action on pressure to raise N5million ransom to free her mother from the captivity of bandits who kidnapped her in June.
Also at the SAHCO export shed of Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 4th August, thwarted attempts by some freight agents to export two consignments of cannabis in a consolidated cargo to Dubai, UAE.
Two persons arrested in connection to drugs are Oladipupo Oladapo Fatai and Animashaun Qudus, while two others are still at large.
On Thursday 4th Aug, NDLEA operatives in Zamfara intercepted a truck from Benin, Edo state en route to Sokoto with 50,000 tablets of Diazepam owned by a drug dealer, Umaru Attahiru.
Again in Kogi, 14 sacks containing 1,376 bottles of codeine-based syrup weighing 190.4kg were seized along Okene-Abuja highway on Wednesday 3rd Aug.
“The exhibits were found in a delivery bus coming from Onitsha, Anambra, and heading to Abuja”, Babafemi said. “Follow-up operation in Abuja same day led to the arrest of Jude Ikenna and Ozoemene Cornelius”.
In Kaduna, four suspects: Sulaiman Rabi’u, Sanusi Sha’aibu, Ma’aruf Habibu, and Christian Nnachor, were arrested in Zaria, Tafa, and Romi Kaduna with 106, 770 tablets of Tramadol 225mg, Diazepam, Exol-5 and 100 bottles of codeine cough syrup.
Also in Enugu, 143.5kg of cannabis sativa was recovered from locked up stores in new market area of the state capital on Saturday 6th Aug.
Then in Delta, a suspect, Ike Okparachi, 42, was arrested at Abraka Junction, Asaba with 10,550 tablets of Tramadol 225mg; Swinol; Rohypnol; and 3,105 bottles of codeine syrup as well as 69grams of Molly.
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