Crimes

NDLEA seizes imported drugs in Lagos, arrests 2 Ghanaians

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki expressway and at the Alfa Beach in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement issued on Sunday, June 25.

Babafemi stated that the NDLEA operatives, while acting on credible intelligence, laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2,434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday, June 19.

He noted that the truck driver, however, jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilised the truck conveying the drug exhibits.

The NDLEA spokesperson disclosed that the officers of the Marine Command of the anti-drug agency, on Tuesday, June 20, while also acting on intelligence intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported Loud weighing 2,910kg around the Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana.

He added that two Ghanaians – Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27 – who were found with the consignments were arrested by the NDLEA officers.

In his reaction, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), charged the anti-narcotics officers and their compatriots across other formations to remain committed to the corporate goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking.

The Star