Babafemi said the suspect claimed he was on a business trip
to Vietnam.
The spokesperson also said on March 1, NDLEA operatives of a
special unit of the agency, swooped on members of a syndicate that deals in
methamphetamine, cocaine and heroin in their hideouts in parts of Lagos.
“The operatives assigned for the operation raided the home
of Esimone Amachukwu Christopher at 14 Arochukwu street, Ejigbo, where 10.012
kilograms of methamphetamine was found in possession of his associate,
40-year-old Evelyn Nneka Okem. Esimone is currently at large,” the statement
reads.
“While the Ejigbo
operation was going on, another set of officers were simultaneously busy in the
residence of another member of the syndicate, 45-year-old Ebele Edwin Iwuegbunam,
located at Plot 1604 Close D, 4th Avenue, Festac town, Lagos where they
arrested him and recovered 429.5grams of cocaine and 7 kilograms of heroin.
“In Kogi state, NDLEA officers on a stop and search
operation along Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Friday 1st March intercepted a
commercial bus marked GRM 347XA (Borno) conveying 28 compressed blocks of
cannabis sativa weighing Ilk; 100 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup and 500
tablets of diazepam, all concealed in three plastic drums covered with cattle
fats, heading to Jos, Plateau state.
“While operatives in Ogun state on Thursday 29th February
recovered 169kg consignment of cannabis abandoned in a truck at Sagamu
tollgate, their counterparts in Lagos seized 25 cartons of tramadol containing
325,000 pills in Ikeja the previous day Wednesday 28th Feb.”
The statement added that the agency also seized illicit
substances in Kano and Borno states.
“Same day, a suspect,
Abdullahi Garba Khalil, 42, and 2,745,000 capsules of pregabalin recovered from
him at Singer market, Sabon Gari area of Kano were handed over to the Kano
state command of NDLEA by the Department of State Security, DSS,” he said.
“In the same vein, the 243 Recce Battalion, Nigerian Army,
Badagry on Saturday 2nd March, transferred 27 sacks of cannabis sativa weighing
1,110kg recovered at a coastal community, Ajido by soldiers, to the Seme
Special Area Command of NDLEA.
“A suspect, Hassan Muhammad, 34, was on Saturday 2nd March
arrested with 44,950 pills of tramadol at Moranti area of Borno state by NDLEA
operatives.”
