January 28 (THEWILL) – Officials of the National Narcotics Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) arrested Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, a Brazilian returnee, for allegedly ingesting 60 large packets of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos. was arrested.
The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday that the suspect was arrested during passenger immigration screening in the D arrival hall of an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Sunday, January 21, 2024, Lagos Airport initially refused to submit to a body scan, raising health concerns to evade arrest.
However, when other options were offered to him, he accepted to undergo excretion observation, and upon being escorted to the NDLEA observation station he excreted his first set of cocaine pellets, and subsequently excreted the Class A drug a total of 60 times. The weight was 1.279 kg after 5 defecation.
Udechukwu said in a statement that he had ingested the shipment in Brazil and was scheduled to eject it all at Addis Ababa airport, but was only able to eject 15 pellets and sent them to another member of the syndicate before his connecting flight to Nigeria. He claimed to have handed it over.
Meanwhile, former beauty queen, Queen Adelinoye, also known as Queen Oluwadamilola Adelinoye, fled from her home in Lekki, Lagos State, when NDLEA operatives raided her apartment in Oral Estate, Lekki, on Wednesday. He was later declared wanted by the agency. , January 24, 2024 According to reliable information, she deals in illegal drugs.
The suspect was the 2015/2016 Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Culture and founder of the Queen Christmas Foundation.
Items recovered from the home during the search included 606 grams of Canadian Loud, a synthetic cannabis strain, an electronic weighing scale, a large quantity of drugs packed in plastic, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her photo frames etc.
Similarly, on Tuesday, January 23, 2024, NDLEA personnel at the Lagos Airport recovered a total of 12 cartons of Tramadol 225mg containing 599,900 tablets weighing. Following joint inspection with other agencies, 385.40kg was recovered from the overstayed cargo at the SAHCO import warehouse at the Lagos Airport.
The tramadol shipment was brought into the country in two separate KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flights from Karachi, Pakistan, between July 27 and August 1, 2023. However, it has since been under surveillance by NDLEA officials.
More than 822 kg of cannabis hidden in a filling station in Asippa community on the Badagry-Seme road was recovered by operatives of NDLEA’s Seme Special Area Command, identified as Sani Audu, 35. was arrested with 111.3 kg of marijuana. substance on Tuesday, January 23, in Maigatari town, Jigawa state.
In Yobe State, two suspects, Paul Obor (38) and Dennis Fuokolige, were arrested on Saturday, January 27, at Damaturu Motor Park in Damaturu with 49 cannabis blocks weighing 50kg. He was arrested on Wednesday, January 24th at a naval checkpoint in Itobe, Off-LGA of Kogi State, with 318 compressed cannabis blocks weighing 190.8kg hidden inside a golden Honda Accord car marked RBC 449AE. 48 people were handed over to the police. On Friday, January 26, the agency’s Kogi State Command was opened fire by the crew of the Nigerian Navy ship Lugard in Lokoja.
In Kano, Shamwir Idris, 29, was found in possession of 271 kg of cannabis in Gadar Tambulawa area on Thursday, January 25, after confiscating 28.1 kg of abandoned cannabis in Riziyar Remo area of the state. was arrested. Wednesday, January 24th.
Another suspect, Abubakar Haruna Salisu, 24, was arrested on Friday, January 26, at Kotun Wambai, Yan Awaki area of Kano, with 600 bottles of codeine-based syrup, weighing a total of 1,306 blocks. A block of cannabis weighing 886 kg was seized by police. The police force in Kwanal Dangora district in the state was transferred to the agency on Wednesday, January 24.
A total of 87 compressed cannabis blocks weighing 73 kg, 21,346 tramadol tablets and 3,800 diazepam tablets were recovered from suspect Musa Galadima when a DAF truck marked GME 971 XD was intercepted on Friday, January 26. . by NDLEA officials at Lafiyawo along Gombe-Bauchi road.
In Plateau State, Mr. Aminu Ubanta, 35, was arrested on Saturday, January 27, in Laing Zana area of Jos with 5.355 kg of cannabis.
Also, two members of an international drug trafficking syndicate, Sunday Michael Olowoborode (52) and Valentine Anene, were arrested on Thursday, January 25, in Edu Orita, Ogun State, while Valentine was arrested on the same day. , was preparing to travel to Qatar with drugs. He boarded a Qatar Airways flight from Lagos.
At the time of his arrest, 1.8 kg of marijuana and an electronic scale were discovered as illegal drugs. In another interdiction operation by operatives in Lagos, 50-year-old Sunday Adiran was arrested on Wednesday, January 25, after 20kg of cannabis sativa was found in a room of his house in Mushin Orosha.
In the same vein of momentum last week, various units of the Anti-Drug Abuse Agency across the country continued WADA’s advocacy campaign in the fight against drug abuse. These include WADA’s awareness lecture for students of Government Day Primary and Secondary School, Jider Michika, Adamawa State. Student at Soltabu University, Abeokuta, Ogun State. Students and teachers at Sangotedo Primary School, Ajah, Lagos State. Students and teachers of ADS Basic Primary School 1&2, Ogbomoso, Oyo State. Students and teachers at Farfanu Malami Community Secondary School, Magama Jibia, Katsina State. And WADA’s advocacy efforts especially visited His Highness Dr. Gibson Nwabueze Nwosu at No. 11 Eze Uzu, Awka, Anambra State.
While commending the MMIA, Lagos, Seme, Kano, Gombe, Kogi, Plateau and Jigawa Commands for their outstanding achievements last week, the NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Brig. , commended the officers and men of Kano, Gombe, Kogi, Plateau and Jigawa commands. General Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd.) equally commended the commanders of all commands across the country for intensifying WADA advocacy lectures, thereby creating a balance between drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction activities. did.
