The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted consignments of cannabis and codeine-based cough syrup worth more than N5bn at the Apapa, Tin Can Island and Onne ports.
The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, said the seizures followed months of intelligence gathering and tracking of the shipments from their ports of origin.
At the Apapa Port in Lagos, operatives working with Customs and other agencies subjected two containers shipped from Bangkok, Thailand, to 100 per cent examination.
A search of one of the containers on September 3 led to the discovery of 161 parcels of Thai Loud weighing 124kg and valued at N372m. The drugs were allegedly concealed inside two refrigerators and two cartons.
At the Onne Port in Rivers State, two containers placed on the NDLEA watchlist were subjected to a joint examination.
Operatives recovered 40 packs of Loud weighing 22kg from a travelling bag and three vehicles — a Toyota Matrix, Toyota Corolla and Hyundai Elantra — shipped in one of the containers.
The second container contained 109,600 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup weighing 16,440kg.
The NDLEA said the container had been shipped from India to Saudi Arabia, where information about its origin was allegedly removed to avoid detection.
The agency put the combined street value of the Loud and codeine consignments at N833.2m.
At the Tin Can Island Port, NDLEA operatives on September 29 intercepted another watch-listed container shipped from Montreal, Canada.
A joint examination uncovered 2,595 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 1,297.5kg, allegedly concealed inside a Toyota Sienna and Hyundai Elantra, alongside 24 blue drums and six jumbo bags.
The consignment was valued at more than N3.8bn.
The NDLEA said the operations formed part of its intelligence-led efforts to disrupt international drug trafficking networks.
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