The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, said its
operatives have recovered 589 bags of Canadian Loud, a strong strain of
cannabis with a total weight of 417.3 kilograms worth One Billion Forty-Two
Million Five Hundred Thousand Naira in street value following a raid at an
80-room new hotel in Victoria Island, Lagos, used as cover for distributing
illicit substances.
NDLEA stated that three suspects – Eze Ayitu, Ofuokwu Samuel and Emmanuel Ameh – were arrested in the course of the operation at the five-storey hotel building between Friday 25th and Saturday 26th April 2025 while two others – Noble Philip and his partner Kenneth – are currently at large.
This was made known on Sunday in a statement by Femi Babafemi, Director, Media & Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters Abuja.
Babafemi disclosed that “items suspected to be proceeds of illicit drug trade recovered from the premises housing The Hook Hotel also known as Caesar Hotel and Caesar Lounge located at 16 Waziri Ibrahim street, off Elsie Femi Pearse street, Victoria Island, Lagos, include: Toyota Prado Landcruiser Jeep (Lagos AKD 472 OZ); Toyota Sienna Vehicle (Lagos KJA 79 HJ); Volkswagen Delivery Van (Lagos AAA 525 JE); Kia Ceranto Car (Lagos BDG 860 GQ); Grand Caravan Dodge (Lagos APP 847 YF); 74 new TV sets; 10 used TV sets; and 13 refrigerators, among others”.
Similarly, Babafemi announced that NDLEA in another major interdiction in Jigawa state with a follow up operation in Kano, its operatives acting on intelligence on Wednesday 23rd April seized consignments of opioids being moved from Kano to Niger Republic and Yobe state through Jigawa.
The NDLEA spokesman stated that the psychoactive substances
were being moved in a Toyota Sienna vehicle marked ABJ 182 NW at about 2:30am
on Wednesday along Kano- Ringim road, Gumel town when anti-narcotic officers on
patrol intercepted them with two suspects: Abba Ibrahim, 28, and Shuaibu Umar,
29 arrested.
“Recovered from the Sienna vehicle were 200,000 pills of
tramadol 250mg and 217,500 capsules of pregabalin,” Babafemi added.
A swift follow up operation in Kano led to the arrest of the
supplier, 41-year-old Jamilu Muhammad, at his residence located at Mil Tara,
Layin Technical area of Kano while additional 1,584,000 pills of tramadol 250mg
stacked inside a Nissan 18-seater bus marked DAL 372 XA and a room in his house
were discovered and evacuated.
This brings the total number of the recovered opioids to
2,001,500 pills.
Barely a week after NDLEA officers of the Directorate of
Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) uncovered 20 parcels of cocaine
concealed inside religious books going to Saudi Arabia at a logistics company
in Lagos, the operatives have again intercepted another shipment of 46 wraps of
cocaine weighing 547grams hidden in body cream going to the Middle East
country.
The seizure was made on Wednesday 23rd April at a courier
firm in Lagos. Another consignment intercepted same day include: 1.8kg
pentazocine injection and 60grams bromazepam tablets heading to Canada.
At the Seme border area of Badagry Lagos, three Ghanaian
ladies were on Sunday 20th April arrested at the Gbaji check point by NDLEA
operatives while attempting to smuggle combined 4.8kilograms of Ghana Loud, a
strong strain of cannabis into Nigeria. The suspects arrested include: Haziza
Zubairu, 42; Samirat Mustapha, 43; and Jamila Salifu, 26.
In Kano, a 60-year-old grandma Safiya Shamsu was on Friday
25th April nabbed at Samegu area of Kumbotso LGA with 5.6kg skunk, a strain of
cannabis, while another suspect Muntari Labaran, 35, was taken into custody
following the seizure of 100 litres of codeine syrup from him at Yelwa area of
Dala LGA.
A total of 3,814.9kg skunk was destroyed on two farms in
Ugbodu community, Ovia North East LGA, Edo state on Thursday 24th April when
NDLEA operatives raided the plantations where three suspects: Samuel Samson,
26; Daniel Peter, 20; and Abel Edah, 31, were arrested.
Reacting to the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive
Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), commended the officers
and men of DOGI, Lagos, Kano, Jigawa, Edo and Seme Commands of the Agency for
the arrests and seizures of the past week.
Marwa equally praised their counterparts in all the commands
across the country for ensuring a fair balance between their drug supply
reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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