National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) operatives have intercepted skunk consignments concealed in tomato paste tins and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes.

The hard drugs were meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.

On Sunday, the NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi stated that the skunk in tomato paste consignment weighing 20.00 kilogrammes was intercepted on September 8.

Mr Babafemi said the illicit drugs were seized at the Skyway Aviation Handling Company Plc (SAHCO) export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja.

He said the meth shipment with a gross weight of 1.60kg was seized at a courier company in Lagos.

Meanwhile, another consignment of 556 grammes of Canadian Loud sent from Canada to one Tunji Adebayo in Ikorodu, Lagos, was also intercepted by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI), attached to courier firms.

Mr Babafemi said that though Mr Adebayo was not home when operatives visited his house, he directed his younger brother to sign for the package on his behalf.

“The brother was promptly arrested,” he said.

In another development, NDLEA operatives, on Monday, September 4, raided the enclave of a notorious drug lord in Akala, Mushin, Lagos.

Mr Babafemi said 1,101kgs of Ghanaian Loud were recovered and three suspects arrested, while the wanted kingpin remains at large.

Again, a 22-year-old suspect in Kogi was arrested with 77.400kgs cannabis on September 7, along the Okene – Lokoja – Abuja expressway.

Mr Babafemi said 369,980 pills of opioids were also recovered on the same road on September 4, and the suspect linked to the seizure was arrested in a follow-up operation in Gombe State.

He said that besides various drug control efforts, state commands and other formations had continued the agency’s War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy campaigns to schools, worship places, palaces, and local communities.

(NAN)