2 drug kingpins nabbed with Europe-bound cocaine, heroin in Lagos

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested two suspected drug kingpins with consignments of cocaine, heroin, and methamphetamine being prepared for export to Europe.

The suspects, Victor Nwosa and Felix Chika Obiegbu, were arrested by operatives of a Special Operations Unit (SOU) of the NDLEA after the illicit drugs were recovered from their Lagos homes following weeks of intelligence and surveillance on their criminal networks.

While 64-year-old Nwosa parades himself as a successful textile merchant, 49-year-old Obiegbu is known to many as a businessman who is into wine distribution but beneath their outward appearance is their hidden illicit drug business unearthed by NDLEA operatives after months of intelligence gathering on the two syndicates led by them.

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At the time they were preparing their consignments for export, NDLEA-SOU operatives who have for months put them under surveillance, swooped on them in different parts of Lagos.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 28, said Nwosa was arrested on September 17, at his home in the Okota area of Lagos where 4.33 kilograms of heroin and 448 grams of cocaine were recovered during a search of his house.

In his case, Obiegbu was arrested on September 11 at his home in the Surulere area of Lagos where 2.902 kilograms of methamphetamine were uncovered and seized.

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