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NDLEA Arrests Two Businessmen, Canada-based Female Nurse Over Cocaine,Loud

...intercepts over N7billion worth of opioids at Apapa, Onne seaports

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October 20, 2024
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NDLEA Arrests Two Businessmen, Canada-based Female Nurse Over Cocaine,Loud
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested two businessmen; Ihejirika Okechukwu Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory as well as a Canada-based female nurse, Usman Grace Khadijat Olami while attempting to import and export cocaine pellets and parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis into the country.

According to a statement from the NDLEA, the suspects were arrested at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA , Ikeja ,Lagos with the illicit drugs.

Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi signed the statement which was released yo newsmen on Sunday.

He said Ihejirika who frequents Thailand from where he claims to be importing fish into Nigeria was arrested on Tuesday 15th October 2024 while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight to Thailand via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.

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“When he was taken for body scan, the result showed he ingested illicit drug which proved to be cocaine.

“As a result, he was placed under excretion observation during which he expelled five big egg size wraps of cocaine weighing 400grams.

“In his statement, the 51-year-old suspect confessed that he was to be paid upon successful delivery of the drug consignment in Thailand.

“He said he needed the money to boost his fish importation business,” the statement said.

In the same vein, the anti – narcotic agency said its operatives at the Lagos airport on Thursday 17th October intercepted a 26-year-old businessman, Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight.

“His body scan revealed ingestion of illicit drug. When he was put under observation, he excreted a pellet of cocaine weighing 22 grams.

“He , however , confessed that he ingested 30 wraps of the illicit drug in Brazil but excreted 29 pellets in Addis Ababa, where he handed them over to another person.

“The suspect revealed that he was to be paid N2.5 million for trafficking the drug,” Babafemi said.

Im another development,
a Nigerian Canadian nurse, Usman Grace Khadijat Olami was on 4th October arrested by NDLEA officers at the Lagos Airport during the inward clearance of Air France passengers from Toronto, Canada via Paris.

“During a search of her luggage, a total of 70 parcels of Canadian Loud, weighing 35.70kg were recovered from her.

“During her interview, she claimed she was in Nigeria to meet her boyfriend who instructed her to come with the large consignment of the highly sought-after synthetic cannabis.

“At the seaports, while a total of 162,351 bottles of codeine based syrup were intercepted from two containers at the Apapa seaport in Lagos by NDLEA operatives during a joint examination of two containers with men of the Customs Service and other security agencies on Tuesday 15th October, not less than 7,200,000 pills of Royal 225mg Tapentadol and Carisoprodol worth T N3.6 billion in street value were seized from a watch-listed container from India at Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers state on Tuesday 15th October.

” In the same container, 780 cartons of chlorphenamine containing 15,600,000 pills of the opioid, were also recovered.

“From two other watch-listed containers equally searched at the port in Onne, a total of 337,000 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N2.359 billion were recovered from them on Tuesday 15th and Thursday 17th October.

” This brings the total value of the seized Tapentadol, Carisoprodol and Codeine consignments at the two seaports to N7,095,457,000.

” In Bauchi State, a suspect Sunday Jonathan Ogenyi, 33, was arrested along Bauchi-Jos road with 76,600 pills of tramadol concealed in false compartments of his Toyota Sienna vehicle marked Enugu JRV 341 ZY, while NDLEA operatives in Ondo State on Tuesday, 15th October arrested three suspects: Goddey Obizuo; Samuel Aniete; and Kuffrey Aniete at Afo village where 672kg cannabis sativa was seized from them.

“A raid at Illushi forest in Esan South East LGA, Edo state led to the destruction of 10,590.36kg cannabis spread on 4.236144 hectares of farmland.

“Suspects arrested during the operation include: Benson Upuoni, 65; and Sunday Nwaeboyi, 35.

“In Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday 15th October arrested Andrew Joseph Anoriode with 3kg methamphetamine and 1.90kg cannabis along Lagos – Ibadan expressway while 241kg of same substance was recovered at Gbaji, Badagry area of the state.

“A suspected meth cook, Agbeiboh Oscar, was nabbed same Tuesday at Abule Osun with 265grams of methamphetamine and different quantities of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of methamphetamine and others,” Babafemi explained.

The statement also said the various commands and formations of the agency across the country intensified their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitization activities during the week under review.

It said this include visits
to schools, worship centres, work places and communities among others.

“These include: WADA enlightenment lecture to students and staff of Ansarudeen Senior High School, Saki, Oyo State; Government Secondary School, Hayin Gwarmai, Bebeji LGA, kano; Margaret Ekpo Secondary School, Calabar,Cross River; Agbaju Unuhu Community Secondary School, Abakaliki, Ebonyi; and WADA advocacy visit to the Emir of Lafiagi, Alhaji Muhammad Kawu Kudu, Kwara State, among others.

While reacting to the arrests and seizures, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, retired Brig.-Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa
commended officers and men of MMIA, PHPC, Apapa, Lagos, Bauchi, Ondo, and Edo Commands for their vigilance and mental alertness.

Marwa stated that their operational successes and those of their compatriots across the country especially their balanced approach to drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts are well appreciated.
(vitalnewsngr.com)

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