Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) had traced the wanted drug dealer, Stephen Afam Ikeanyionwu, on Sunday 15th August, 2021, to a popular Pentecostal church in Ojodu Berger, where they arrested him soon after he stepped out of the church service.
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The Osun State NDLEA Commander, Samuel Egbeola, made this known while marking the 2021 International Day Against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking in Osogbo.
Ifeoma Ojukwu, the spokesperson for the Area II Command, Onne Port in Rivers, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Port Harcourt.
Following intelligence-based raids and follow up operations on their locations on May 2, 2021, over 192kg of cocaine and other psychoactive substances were recovered from the suspects, while the octogenarian, her granddaughter and two other ladies: Tessy Matthew and Blessing Adesida, were arrested.
At the Apapa seaport, about two million capsules of Tramadol, precisely 1,994,400 capsules, tucked in 554 cartons were intercepted in the container, which was falsely declared to contain ceramic tiles.
Olife’s arrest in Lagos came just as operatives of the anti-drug agency in Adamawa State nabbed an illicit drug dealer, Rabiu Imam, on Friday with Tramadol tablet 225mg weighing 45.4kg.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), charged Chibuize, who was arrested on Dec. 3, 2020 on the Lafia – Shendam Road with trafficking.
The NDLEA Commander in the FCT, Lawan Hamisu, said this in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Tuesday in Abuja.
NDLEA Commander in the state, Nse Inam, made the disclosure while addressing newsmen on its activities in Owerri on Tuesday.
The defendant is standing trial before Justice Oluremi Oguntoyinbo on four counts bordering on trafficking in Cannabis, Diazepam, Rophynol and Tramadol.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has uncovered a 40ft container loaded with tramadol and other banned medicines in Brawal terminal, Lagos.
The Chairman, NDLEA, Colonel Muhammad Abdallah (retd), said this came after the follow up on the police arrest of 40ft container loaded with cartons of brushes, 40 cartons of tramadol and other banned drugs.
You will recall that Police detectives in Apapa Area Command of Lagos State have intercepted a 40-foot container laden with drugs suspected to be tramadol and codeine on August 6.
The container was intercepted on water and taken to a bonded terminal in Apapa.
Abdallah said: “NDLEA’s investigation further revealed another 40 foot container.
“This joint examination revealed 255 cartons of different types of tramadol and other banned medicines.
“The NDLEA investigation further revealed that the tramadol is manufactured in Pakistan which is a new discovery to agency because previous tramadol were manufactured in India.
“This is of global interest.
“Drug trafficking is one of the vices fueling insecurity across the country.”
Abdallah observed that this investigation is a major breakthrough for the agency, revealing the new route for movement of tramadol into Nigeria, which is from Pakistan via Europe (Hamburg) to Nigeria.
He added: “These tramadol were concealed behind boxes of brushes.”
Abdallah remarked that he will get to the root of this investigation.
He enjoined other security agencies to collaborate with the NDLEA in achieving a successful investigation.
He commended the Police and other agencies for their synergy on this case.
Prof. Mojisola Adeyeye, NAFDAC Director-General, gave the warning in an interview with the News Agency of Nigeria on Monday in Abuja
Seizures of Tramadol increased ten-fold from 17 tonnes in 2014 to 170 tonnes in 2017 in West Africa, according to West African Epidemiology Network on Drug Use Report (2014 – 2017).
The Nigerian Customs Service on Tuesday said that seized containers of rice, tramadol and unregistered pharmaceutical products, with duty paid value of N2,713,865,051.
The Comptroller-General of Customs, Retired Col. Hammed Ali, on Wednesday said the service destroyed various pharmaceutical products including tramadol with a Duty Paid Value of N14.7 billion.
Medbury Medical Services, owner of the ambulance illegally used to convey 10 cartons of stolen tramadol in Lagos State, has denied involvement.
Comptroller Muhammed Abba-Kura, the Customs Area Controller, Apapa Custom Command, made this disclosure on Wednesday in Lagos during a news briefing on the arrest.
The Nigeria Customs Service in Imo says it confiscated three Cartons of Tramadol, three cartons of Codeine, used compressors/tyres, foreign spices and other goods worth N29.47million within three months.
The National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has said the recent drugs allegedly intercepted by the police in Kano State was not Tramadol.
The police in Kano have intercepted 303 cartons of hard drugs (Tramadol tablets).