Olayiwola Matthew
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the weekend uncovered illicit substances at Igbo-Igunuko shrine located at Alfa Beach in the Ajah, as well as an underground storage in Lekki areas of Lagos.
The illicit substance suspected to be Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,760kg were recovered on Friday and two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun arrested, said the NDLEA in a statement yesterday.
Spokesman for the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said that total of 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, rohypnol and diazepam, as well as 64 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered from an underground storage that one Muhammad Warnos Abdullahi dug in his bedroom at Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos.
He said the underground storage was uncovered during a raid of the suspect’s residence on Friday, saying the storage was dug in his bedroom, covered it with padlocked iron slate and rug before putting his mattress on top to avoid detection.
Babafemi said another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin was arrested the same Friday with 770kg of suspected cannabis along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway.
According to Babafemi, consignments of opioids concealed in soles of shoes and hair attachments heading to the United States, United Kingdom and Cyprus were intercepted by the agency’s operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos and three courier companies in the state.
He said a total of 2,118 pills of tramadol concealed in soles of 13 pairs of shoes going to Cyprus were seized at the export shed of the Lagos airport on October 12, and additional 380 tablets recovered from the home of the sender, Okenwa Kelvin Uchenna during a follow up operation in Enugu on Thursday, October 24, adding that N968,880 cash and a Toyota Avalon car marked UWN389AS, were also recovered from the suspect at the time of his arrest.