The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted consignments of cocaine concealed in local mortar and false bottom of a backpack while being prepared for shipment abroad.
The drug consignments were intercepted at a logistics company while being packaged for shipment to China and Italy.
Spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
He said the drug consignments were intercepted and recovered on Thursday, July 30, 2026, by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigations (DOGI).
Babafemi said the seized illicit drugs include 250grams of cocaine factory fitted into the base of a local mortar packed in a carton for export to China, and 500grams of the same class A drug hidden in the false bottom of a backpack being shipped to Italy.
In another development, the NDLEA said it’s operatives in Rivers State arrested a 38-year-old notorious drug dealer, Ugo Gift Okonkwo, at Eagle Island, Port Harcourt, following credible intelligence.
The agency said the suspect was nabbed with various quantities of cannabis, cocaine, methamphetamine, swinol, tramadol and codeine syrup at the time of his arrest on Sunday 26th July.
The statement also stated : “NDLEA officers on a stop and search operation at DMGS roundabout, Onitsha, Anambra State on Monday, 27th July intercepted a truck marked XK 131 BDG loaded with 26,000 bottles of codeine syrup weighing 3,960kg while the truck driver Chinedu Nwanze, 40, was arrested.
“While 331.84 kilograms of skunk were recovered from a Toyota Sienna bus with registration number KUJ 26 DV along Kwale/Ughelli expressway, Delta State on Sunday, 26th July, NDLEA officers in Nasarawa State on Tuesday, 28th July arrested a 64-year-old man, Joseph Nwaeke with 68kg skunk and 29grams of methamphetamine at Asso Angwan Muazu, Karu area of the state.
“In Zamfara, NDLEA operatives on patrol along Zaria- Gusau highway on Monday 27th July intercepted a suspect, Sani Umar, 27, conveying 7,400 pills of tramadol 225mg suspected to be supplies for criminal elements.”
The agency said it’s various Commands and formations across the country also upscaled their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities during the week under review.
The activities were held in
schools, worship centres, work places and in communities among others.
“These include WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Hausawa Special Primary School, Kano; Royal Crown School, Oluyole, Ibadan; Government Secondary School, Ibi, Taraba; and drivers at Challenge Bus Terminal Park, Ibadan, Oyo state, among others, ” The statement explained.
In his reaction, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa, commended officers and men of DOGI, Rivers, Anambra, Delta, Nasarawa, and Zamfara Commands for their various successful operations.
Marwa then enjoined them and their colleagues across the country to continue with the ongoing balanced approach to the drug control efforts of the agency.
(vitalnewsngr.com)
