The National Drugs Laws Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), in its weekly operations in Nigeria said it has intercepted over One Million pills of Tramadol and other opioids hidden in indomie noodles packs and others at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos.
A press statement by the Agency’s spokesperson, Mr Femi BabaFemi disclosed that, while over 600,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg coming from Karachi, Pakistan in two separate shipments on Ethiopian Airlines flights were intercepted at the SAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport on Monday 12th and Tuesday 13th December, over five thousand pills of Rohypnol concealed in 60 packs of indomie noodles going to Johannesburg, South Africa were also at the airport on Wednesday 14th December.
“A female freight agent, Olaleye Adeola has already been arrested in connection with the noodles consignment,” BabaFemi said.
Also, a trader at Balogun market in Lagos Island, Akunne Tochukwu was arrested on Tuesday 13th December in collaboration with the Zone 2 Police Headquarters, Lagos over his attempt to export a Tramadol consignment to Dubai, UAE.
Still in Lagos, the Anti-narcotic Agency on Sunday 11th December intercepted a truck and a bus conveying 113 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 4,802.84 kilograms around the VGC estate area of Ajah.
According to the spokesperson, NDLEA’S operative made several arrests of drug traffickers and seized large quantities of substance abuse in Gombe, Edo, Oyo, Bauchi and along Kaduna – Abuja Expresse road, using different ways to trafficking.
Also, a driver used in the trafficking in Edo state, Alfred Vratombo, 32, was arrested with fake police uniforms, which he was using to deceive security men on the road.
The Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Retired Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, while commending the officers and men of the affected commands for their commitment and vigilance leading to the arrests and seizures of the past week, urged them and their compatriots across other formations to continue to surpass their past records of achievements.
