Crimes

VIDEO: NDLEA uncovers underground storage for drugs in Lekki

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered an underground storage for illicit drugs in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

The underground storage was dug in the bedroom of a suspect, Muhammad Warnos Abdullahi, at Marwa Coastal Road in Lekki Phase 1.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, October 27, 2024.

Babafemi noted that 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, rohypnol, and diazepam as well as 64 bottles of codeine syrup were recovered from the underground storage when the anti-narcotic officers raided Abdullahi’s home on Friday, October 25.

“The suspect dug the illicit drug storage deep in his room, covered it with padlocked iron slate, a rug, and then put his mattress on top to avoid detection,” Babafemi stated.

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He added that the NDLEA operatives also raided the Igbo-Igunuko shrine located at the Alfa Beach in the Ajah area of Lagos State, where jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,760kg were recovered on Friday, October 25.

Babafemi revealed that two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun, were arrested during the raid.

The NDLEA spokesman said another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also arrested with 770kg of the same psychoactive substance along the Lagos-Ibadan expressway on Friday.

Babafemi noted that the NDLEA continued its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities to schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities, among others, in the past week.

He listed the sensitisation activities to include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Government Girls Secondary School, Tambuwal, Sokoto State; St. Mary College, Awka, Anambra State; Prime Rose Model Private College, Saki, Oyo State; Community Model Arabic College, Malumfashi, Katsina State; Community Junior Secondary School, Rumuomasi, Rivers State; and WADA advocacy lecture to Rugar Alhaji Manu Unguwan Sullubawa, Gombi in Adamawa State; among others.

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