Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have seized 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, hidden in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada.
The anti-narcotics agency, last Friday, intercepted the drug consignments, a synthetic strain of cannabis and weighing 63 kilograms, at the Tincan Port, Lagos.
The NDLEA operatives intercepted the 63kg Canadian Loud, packed in bags in the boot of one of the five used vehicles in a container marked, TLLU4840762.
The container, coming from Toronto via Montreal, was intercepted by the NDLEA operatives during a joint examination with other stakeholders at the port.
Similarly, the agency thwarted an attempt by a freight agent, Mordi Chukwuemeka Samuel, to export 900 grams of the same substance, Loud.
The substance, hidden inside walls of a travelling bag containing food items intended to be exported to Kenya, was intercepted by NDLEA officers at the SAHCO Export Shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, last Saturday.
NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosures in a press release today (Sunday).
As contained in the release, when Mordi presented the bag for search, which he claimed contained food items for export, the operatives noticed that the side walls of the bag were unevenly bloated.
This anomaly caught the attention of the NDLEA officers who dismantled the false packings and subsequently recovered the illicit substance.
“Similarly, men of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation (DOGI) attached to courier firms also, last Thursday, intercepted 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirate,” it was stated.
In Benue State, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer about two kilometres away from NDLEA check point along Enugu – Otukpo Road, last Wednesday.
Two suspects- Kabiru Muhammed (35), and Isah Muhammed (28), were arrested with 20 blocks of cannabis weighing 11.2kg concealed in a bag of cassava flakes (garri) along Zaria-Kano Road, Kano State on Friday.
“No fewer than seven bags of cannabis with a gross weight of 74.5kg were recovered when operatives raided an uncompleted building located in a bush in Ala Town, Akure, Ondo State.
“60kg of the same substance concealed among footwears in two jumbo sacks was recovered from one Aminu Mohammed along Ibadan/Oyo Road, Oyo State while waiting to board a vehicle to Kebbi State,” Babafemi stated.
In Adamawa State, NDLEA operatives, on Saturday, raided a clandestine factory in Mubi, where a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, was being produced in large quantity and distributed to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.
“At the time of the raid, production activities were ongoing in the premises,” the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy disclosed.
Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd) has commended the officers and men of MMIA, Tincan, DOGI, Kano, Ondo, Oyo, Benue and Adamawa commands of the agency for their vigilance and professionalism.
He also charged them and their colleagues across the country not to rest on their oars in the course of discharging their responsibilities.
