Nigeria’s Anti-narcotic Agency, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has intercepted large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom.
The illicit drug consignment was arrested at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos on Tuesday 16th May 2023.
A press statement by NDLEA’S spokesperson, Mr. Femi BabaFemi said, follow-up operations led to the arrest of a freight agent, Nwobodo Chidiebere, a female suspect, Chioma Lucy Akuta and ultimately the drug lord behind the shipment, Mr. Charles Chinedu Ezeh, who was arrested at Sotel Suites, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos on Thursday 18th May 2023.
He said, “Ezeh claims he is a businessman and deals in articles in Onitsha, Anambra State but investigations revealed he lived with his wife and children in London until 10th December 2022 when he fled to Nigeria after his involvement in a drug related offence in the UK.”
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Adamawa on Monday 15th May arrested a 32-year-old notorious drug dealer, Prince Ikechukwu Uzoma, in Mubi area of the state with 1kg of skunk and a trans-border trafficker, Faisal Mohammed with hard drugs.
Also, in Oyo state, two suspects: Osas Susan, 35, and Thomas Biodun, 23, were arrested at Igbon, Gambari in Ogbomoso North LGA with 2.13kg cannabis while Idris Muhammed, 55, was nabbed with 4,500 pills of tramadol when a commercial bus conveying him and other passengers was stopped and searched along Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
The NDLEA’S spokesperson said, operatives of the agency made arrests of traffickers and seized illicit drugs in Kaduna, Plateau, Kwara, Kano states and destroyed 1.5 hectares of cannabis farm in Uhodoua forest, Esan South East LGA, Edo state.
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Not less than 628 bottles of new psychoactive substance, skuchies were seized when operatives raided a drug joint at Idanre where four suspects were arrested.
The Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of the affeced commands.
He charged them and their colleagues in Adamawa and other formations across the country not to rest on their oars.
