NDLEA intercepts ephedrine, skunk, laughing gas consignments at Lagos airport

known as laughing gas, concealed in semovita packs and dry pepper at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

Babafemi said the agency, through credible intelligence, on Friday intercepted a notorious drug trafficker, Suleiman Babatunde Oba, who is a member of a cartel distributing cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ephedrine between Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique, and Europe. Similarly, the Agency said it had seized 25.60kg ephedrine from a trafficker, Arua Emmanuel Onwuka, at the Lagos airport, a seizure that has also been traced to the same cartel whose identified members are currently on the run, noting that an official of the airport, Godwin Shedrack , fingered as a member of the syndicate, is also under investigation.

Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on Friday succeeded in arresting a drug kingpin, Ngene Emmanuel Onyedikachi, who was alleged to have recruited the fake couple, Ilonzeh Kingsley Onyebuchi and Ilonzeh Roseline Nonyelum, respectively arrested for ingesting 1.822kg and 1.50kg of Cocaine at the Lagos airport on 1st August while on their way to India.

Meanwhile, NDLEA’s operatives of the Lagos state Command on Monday, 28th August, arrested a suspect, Peter Iwebema, at Ikorodu with 79 and a half bags of cannabis sativa weighing 864.5kg; their counterparts at Tincan port command intercepted 27 parcels of Colorado, weighing 13.5kg.

Source: Law Daily Report (lawdailyreport.net)

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