NDLEA arrests ‘port workers’ for importing illicit drugs, arms from South Africa to Lagos

“The latest seizure brings the total recovered from the two
containers to 56.39kg of cocaine and 987.9kg of Colorado with a combined weight
of 1,044.29kg. Investigations have also revealed three kingpins believed to be
based in South Africa and connected with the importation of the containers.
They include: Odeyemi Taiwo Emmanuel; Akinyemi Olayinka and Adebayo Adewole
Emmanuel who are now on the Agency’s wanted list.”

Babafemi added that the operatives also raided a drug joint
in Edo and recovered illicit drugs.

He said one Jessica Destiny, the owner of the joint and
Ibrahim Sani, the commander of Arewa Association Vigilantes in the area, were
also arrested.

Babafemi added that the agency seized a consignment of 179kg
of cannabis at Badagry Waterside, Lagos.

He noted that operatives nabbed Rafiu Ogunr, a 67-year-old
grandpa, at Magbon, Ogun state, with 57kg cannabis, 2,700 pills of tramadol,
and 231 bottles of codeine syrup, weighing 2.31 litres.

In the northern part of Nigeria, the NDLEA spokesperson said
operatives arrested one Zara Mele with quantities of cocaine and heroin in
Borno.

 “Usman Shuaibu, and
Mohammed Lawan, were also nabbed with quantities of the same class A drug at
Meri and Babban Layi areas of Maiduguri,” he said.

“No less than 44,820 pills of opioids being taken to Zamfara
by the duo of Tasiu Mohammed and Abubakar Tanko were intercepted along
Jega-Sokoto road by NDLEA officers in Kebbi state. And in Kaduna, Ali
Abdulhamid, a farmer, was arrested in his farm where he grows tomatoes and some
stems of cannabis sativa weighing 73 kilograms.”