Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) weekend arrested an automobile spare part dealer, Ejiofor Nnaemeka Chiwuzie, over attempt to export consignments of heroin and loud, a strain of cannabis, concealed in LED rechargeable lamps and sofa metal legs through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
This was contained in a statement through the director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
It said Ejiofor was arrested on September 24, 2024 at the Trade Fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos where he sells automobile spare parts following the seizure of his cargo containing auto parts, rechargeable lamps, sofa metal legs and electronics going to Liberia at the export shed of the Lagos airport.
“Concealed inside the LED lamps and sofa legs were 37 parcels of heroin weighing 1.10 kilograms and four blocks of loud with a total weight of 1.20kg”
“A swift follow up operation led to the arrest of two freight agents and Ejiofor who sent the consignment.”
In the same vein, attempts by drug- trafficking networks to export consignments of loud, tramadol pills, co-codamol tablets, pentazocine injection, dihydrocodeine and promethazine tabs through some courier companies to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Thailand and Oman were foiled by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation(DOGI) attached to the logistics firms.
While 2.3kg of loud hidden in a carton was going to Thailand, 749 grams of tramadol concealed in soles of locally made footwears were heading to Oman, with 60 ampoules of pentazocine injection going to the United States.
He stated that no less than 200 pills of co-codamol meant for Australia with a total of 700 tablets of dihydrocodeine, promethazine and tramadol as well as 20 ampoules of pentazocine injection concealed in soles of footwear’s heading to the United Kingdom while going to Canada were 58 ampoules of pentazocine injection hidden in female cloths. All the seizures in the courier houses were made between September 23 and 24 in Lagos.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives September 25, arrested a wanted drug kingpin Ajiboye Damilare Samuel (a.k.a Na God) after 12 months of evading arrest following the raid of his warehouse in Akala, Mushin area of Lagos, where a total of 1,101 kilograms of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis was recovered on September 4, 2023. The arrest of Ajiboye in a bank in Ogun state followed well-coordinated efforts by the agency’s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigation, which traced 20 bank accounts linked to the suspect and blocked them.