Cyril Chidiebere, a businessman from Lekki, was detained along with Mejabi Sunday and Oyeyinka Babatunde, two of his freight agents, for their roles in the importation of 12 parcels of the cannabis strain Loud, weighing 6.50kg, which was part of a consolidated cargo brought in from the United States of America, Entrepreneurng report.
Following the cargo’s arrival at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport’s NAHCO import shed, its exit from the airport was carefully observed as part of a sting operation until the real importer, Chidiebere, was apprehended in his home at the Abraham Adesanya estate, Ajah, Lekki.
Mejabi and Chidiebere both provided insightful remarks that helped establish the latter’s prior involvement in dealing with illegal substances.
A pregnant woman named Rabetu Abdulrasak, 24, and a disabled man named Shehu Adams were detained by NDLEA agents on Saturday, April 15, in Agbede, Etsako West LGA, Edo state, and more than 14 kilograms of various illicit drugs, including cannabis, methamphetamine, tramadol, and swivel, were found on them.
In addition, Susan Isoro, a 22-year-old female HND 1 student at the Federal Polytechnic, Ilaro, Ogun state, was detained on Saturday, April 15 in front of the institution’s “Second Gate” for trafficking illegal substances.
She was found to have 283 grams of marijuana and 1,100ml of cough medicine with codeine. While two young guys, Nonso Peter, 21, and Bright Chibike, 23, were detained a day earlier in Ile-Epo, Abule Egba, Lagos State, carrying 43.4kg of cannabis.
In the week, NDLEA agents at MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, confiscated shipments of Tramadol, Rohypnol, Ecstasy (a designer drug), and Cannabis hidden within winter jackets and bottles of body lotion.
Following Joshua Sunday’s arrest while boarding a Qatar Airline aircraft from Doha to Oman, Middle East, on Friday, April 14, the psychoactive chemicals were found at the airport’s new terminal.
According to Babafemi, a comprehensive examination of the suspects’ two black bags turned out 4.80 kilograms of cannabis concealed in three winter jackets as well as varying amounts of Tramadol, Rohypnol, and Ecstasy concealed in body lotion bottles.
He added that initial research indicated the suspect entered Nigeria from Oman on April 7 and was leaving again exactly one week later.
On Sunday, April 9, authorities in Katsina state apprehended suspect Bishir Saadu and recovered 1,730 bottles of codeine-based syrup from him. Muhamadu Yusuf was also apprehended on the same day with 8,000 tramadol capsules hidden inside a commercial bus on the Kano-Katsina road.
In a similar vein, NDLEA agents raided a covert facility producing mist potassium citrate in a residential unit at 16 Sabon Gari, Zaria, on Thursday, April 14. Christopher Agodi, the lab’s proprietor, was detained, and 2,448 vials of the chemical were found in 102 containers.
A 25-year-old man was carrying 11.7kg of cannabis from Port Harcourt to Kano when he was stopped along the Abuja-Kaduna road. On Saturday, April 15, while taking a commercial bus from Lagos to Shinkafi in the Zamfara state, agents detained one Atiku Abubakar, 22, on the same road with 50 blocks of cannabis totaling 28 kg.
Similarly, anti-narcotic officials detained Aminu Saudi, 45, and Abdullahi Sani, 35, after receiving a tip, in Ogbese, Ondo state, with 11 giant bags containing 211kg of cannabis smuggled under rice chaff.
In conclusion, the eradication of a six-hectare cannabis farm in the Uso forest in the same state on April 13 came quickly after.
Source: Punch
