CRIME- NDLEA Officers have seized 126 parcels of synthetic cannabis weighing 63kg, concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The anti-narcotics agency also thwarted a similar attempt by a freight agent, Mordi Chukwuemeka, to export 900 grams of the same substance, loud, hidden inside the walls of a traveling bag containing food items, at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Saturday, April 29.
Femi Babafemi, the spokesman for the agency, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
He said, “When Mordi presented the bag, which he claimed contained food items for export, operatives noticed that in the course of searching the consignment, the side walls of the bag were unevenly bloated, after which they dismantled the false packings and recovered the illicit substance.”
“Similarly, men of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation, attached to courier firms also on Thursday, April 27, intercepted 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirate.”
The agency also recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based Syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer in Benue.
Furthermore, 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 on Friday, April 28.
In Ala town, Akure area of Ondo state, seven bags of cannabis with a gross weight of 74.5kg were recovered from an uncompleted building located in a bush.
Also, 60kg of the same substance concealed among footwear 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.
In Adamawa state, NDLEA operatives 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.
NDLEA Spokesman Babafemi said the agency remains committed to ridding Nigeria of drug traffickers and other illicit substances. “We’ll continue to prevent these drugs from getting to the streets and causing harm to our youths,” he added.
