Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency in the last one week seized opioids worth over N7 billion in two operations and arrested drug dealers nationwide within the same period.
The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, gave the details of the operations in a statement on Sunday.
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 State by NDLEA operatives during a joint examination of two containers with men of the Nigeria Customs Service and other security agencies on October 15, 2024, not less than 7.2 million pills of Royal 225mg Tapentadol and Carisoprodol worth N3.6 billion in street value were seized from a watch-listed container from India at Port Harcourt Port Complex, Onne, Rivers State on the same day.
In the same container, 780 cartons of chlorphenamine containing 15.6 million 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 October 15 and 17, 2024.
This brought the total value of the seized Tapentadol, Carisoprodol and Codeine consignments at the two seaports to N7,095,457,000.
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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 October 15 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 of Edo State led to the destruction of 10,590.36kg cannabis spread on 4.236144 hectares of farmland.
Suspects arrested during the operation included Benson Upuoni, 65, and Sunday Nwaeboyi, 35.
In Lagos State, NDLEA operatives on October 15 arrested Andrew Joseph Anoriode with 3kg methamphetamine and 1.90kg cannabis along Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, while 241kg of the same substance was recovered at Gbaji, Badagry area of the state.
A suspected meth cook, Agbeiboh Oscar, was nabbed the same Tuesday at Abule Osun with 265grams of methamphetamine and different quantities of precursor chemicals for the manufacture of methamphetamine and others.
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