Desperate bids by drug cartels to push out millions of illicit drug tablets across Lagos State and other parts of the country for the festive season have been frustrated by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency.
This followed the seizure of 8,381,600 capsules and tablets of Tramadol as well as 56,782 bottles of codeine.
The massive haul was recorded by operatives of the agency in major raids in Lagos State.
Ahead of Christmas, the Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brigadier General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd), had ordered a sustained surveillance on some targets at Satellite town and Alaba Rago areas of Lagos State.
The Satellite town target was eventually raided on December 23 when a drug kingpin, Ezekiel Ibe, was arrested and over five tons of high milligrams Tramadol 225mg and 100mg.
They were recovered from Ibe’s warehouse.
A breakdown of the seized drug showed 7,991,600 Tramadol tablets and 390,000 capsules of same weighing 5,468.894 kilograms.
In another raid on December 20 following tasking surveillance in a notorious neighbourhood at Alaba Rago, Alaba area of Lagos State, one Surajo Mohammed was arrested with 941.14kg cannabis, while 56,782 bottles of codeine were seized from the store of another drug lord still at large.
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