NDLEA’s director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a statement Sunday in Abuja, said two masterminds were detained after a raid on their hideout in the Lekki area of Lagos.
Babafemi said the drug syndicate operated by the duo had imported consignments of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of cannabis and a variety of colourful designer sachets.
He said the substances were packaged in retail quantities using sachets printed with pictures and labels of cookies and snacks.
Babafemi added that following credible intelligence on the activities of the syndicate, which operated and distributed drugs through a WhatsApp platform, NDLEA operatives began tracking their movements.
He said the operatives eventually raided the syndicate’s apartment on Ojulari Street, Ikate area of Lekki on Nov. 22.
He added that a large quantity of the designer sachets and 5kg of Loud were recovered during the operation.
In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on 27 November arrested a 38-year-old drug kingpin while he was taking delivery of 110 pouches of Canadian Loud weighing 55.6kg at the Ladipo area of Mushin.
Babafemi said three delivery vehicles were also seized from him at the point of arrest.
Meanwhile, at a courier company in Lagos, 100 grams of Loud concealed in a teddy bear imported from Thailand were intercepted on 27 November.
He said a consignment of 548 capsules of tramadol hidden in bottles of Vitamin C and Magnesium and destined for the United Kingdom was also recovered at another logistics firm on Nov. 28.
He further stated that in Oyo state, NDLEA officers on patrol along the Lagos–Ibadan expressway on 29 November arrested a suspect with 8,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection.
“Other items recovered from the suspect were 590 bottles of codeine syrup, 1,500 pills of Co-codamol and 9,900 capsules of tramadol,” he said.
(NAN)
