NDLEA Arrests Turkey-bound Drug Dealer, Destroys 52,459kg Cannabis
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 42-year-old drug drug dealer, Mbala Dajou Abuba attempting to traffic a large consignment of cocaine to Istanbul Turkey.
Abuba, who is from Angola, was arrested on February 25 at the screening point of Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport (MAKIA) while trying to board an Egypt Air flight to Istanbul, Turkey.
A body scan result confirmed that he ingested illicit drug and was placed under observation during which he expelled 120 pellets of cocaine weighing 1.829 kilograms in seven excretions.
A similar attempt by an auto spare parts dealer, Okeke Ebuka Igwe, to send two parcels of 1.10kg cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, was also thwarted by NDLEA.
He was arrested him on February 24, following credible intelligence.
Another suspect, Ezechi Iyke Cyprian, was also arrested on February 23, while moving a large consignment of cocaine weighing 5.40 kilograms to Owerri, Imo state in his Toyota Sienna bus.
He was nabbed after weeks of intelligence and surveillance.
Also, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan seaport in Lagos, on February 28 seized 128 parcels of Canadian Loud cannabis concealed in two matrasses in the trunk of a Toyota Venza car imported from Canada.
The discovery of the 63.75kg consignment was made during a joint examination with Customs and other security agencies, of a container from Montreal, Canada.
The consignee of the shipment, 44-year-old Bamidele Joseph has been arrested and taken into custody.
In Delta state, NDLEA operatives supported by the military on February 27 stormed a forest in Innam Abbi-Orogun community, Ndokwa West local government area where they destroyed a 20-hectare cannabis farm, and arrested five suspects.
Those arrested include Augustine Subaru, 45; Ukoba Malachukwu, 53; Odalonu Emmanuel, 40; Esuabom Macaulay, 35; and Itoje Safe, 54.
In another operation in Delta state on February 28, the operatives intercepted a Mercedes Benz truck marked AWK 791 ZJ along Abraka-Orogun road conveying 101 bags of skunk with a total weight of 1,111kg.
Another raid in Edo state, supported by the military on March 1, in Okpuje community, Owan West LGA, led to the destruction of over 100 jumbo bags of skunk in warehouses.
The raid also led to the recovery of 1,409.5kg of the psychoactive substance, arrest of two suspects, Oikelomen Osere Monday, 38 and Glory Iroyo, 42.
The NDLEA operatives have arrested one Michael Omoloki, 46, with 58.5 kilograms of skunk at the Ibadan end of the Lagos -Ibadan expressway, and one Beninoise Lawali Mohammed nabbed on February 24 with 2,980 tablets of tramadol and dozens of diazepam pills along Eiyenkorin expressway in Ilorin, Kwara state.
The Agency also said it made similar arrest along Ibadan-Gbongan expressway on February 27, of one Sunday Ogbu, 45, in possession of 1.05kg skunk concealed in detergent soap and biscuit carton.
A suspect Ayuba Mustapha, 30, was arrested at Tsafe, Zamfara state with 24,700 pills of tramadol on February 23, another suspect, Mustapha Shettima, 50, was arrested with 31kg skunk, 1,000 pills of tramadol and N720,000 cash in Maiduguri, Borno State on February 26, while Adamu Idris, 40, was nabbed along Zaria road in Kano, same day with 140 blocks of cannabis weighing 73.5kg.
