Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a member of a cocaine trafficking network, Obiora Joseph Agudosi, at Alafia Orile, Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos State while attempting to move 9.00kg of cocaine to Onitsha, Anambra State.
The arrest of Agudosi, on August 7, 2024, was confirmed by the NDLEA in a statement it issued to the media on Sunday.
The statement, endorsed by the Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, also revealed that two members of another cocaine syndicate based in Nnewi and Oba town, Anambra State were also arrested on August 8, 2024 in a follow up operation following the seizure of their consignments in a GUO Transport Company bus in Benin, Edo State, the same day.
While the bus driver, Harrison Mbachu, 44, was arrested at the Benin tollgate with a total of 2.865kg cocaine, Izuchkwu Arinze, 40, was picked at Nnewi town while attempting to collect his own consignment of 1.748kg cocaine and 514 grams sodium bicarbonate, with Ameachi Okoro, 39, arrested while trying to pick his own 1.117kg cocaine at Oba town.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives at Tincan seaport Lagos on August 7, 2024 intercepted 532 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 265.25kg in a black Toyota Sienna bus, which is one of the three vehicles in a container marked: MSMU 6029570, coming from Montreal, Canada.
The seizure was made during a 100 percent joint examination with operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service and other stakeholders.
The following day, August 8, the operatives recorded yet another seizure of 75 parcels of the same substance weighing 37.5kg in a container marked FSCU-9274613 that came from Canada.
In Adamawa State, NDLEA operatives on August 8, 2024 with the support of men of operation Farauta Sector 3, Mayo Belwa arrested 49-year-old Joseph Peter with 425 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 291.200kg in his Toyota Camry car marked Lagos KSF 381 HM.
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Peter claimed he was taking the consignment from Edo State to deliver in Yola, the Adamawa State capital.
While two suspects: Adekunle Sunday Adebayo, 50, and Yahaya Mamuda, 35, were arrested at Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano on August 6 with 29.5kg cannabis, NDLEA operatives in Lagos recovered 1,169 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance from a bus along Orchid Road, Ajah, Lagos State on August 4.
No less than 1,230.00kg cannabis was destroyed on three hectares of farmland at Ikeje forest, Edimogo village, Igalamela/ Odolu Local Government Area of Kogi State on August 9 by NDLEA officers supported by those of the Nigerian Army, while the owner, Danjuma Maji, 40, was arrested.
