NDLEA charges Lagos man with cocaine, heroin pushing
Thirty-two-year-old Basic Gbolagade has been charged before the Lagos Division of the Federal High Court with cocaine and heroin trafficking.
Mr Gbolagade was arraigned by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Friday on a two-count charge against Gbolagade in a suit marked FHC/L/559C/22.
In the charge, the anti-narcotics body alleged that Mr Gbolagade committed the offences on September 18 at Elegushi in Lekki, Lagos State.
In count one, the agency said that the defendant unlawfully dealt in 16 grammes of cocaine, while in count two, it alleged that the defendant unlawfully dealt in six grammes of heroin.
According to NDLEA, both substances are listed in its schedule as restricted.
Trafficking in any of them offends Section 11(c) of the NDLEA Act of 2004.
No date has been fixed for arraignment of the defendant.
(NAN)
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