NDLEA intercepts multibillion-naira hard drugs from Canada at Lagos port
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it intercepted 8,287 bags of suspected Canadian Loud, weighing 4,143.5 kilogrammes, at the Apapa port in Lagos. The anti-narcotics agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, announced the seizure in a statement on Sunday.
Mr Babafemi said the drugs worth over N10.3 billion in street value were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Customs personnel and other security agencies on July 10.
He disclosed that the discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the NDLEA Maritime Intelligence Unit.
According to him, this was carried out in close collaboration with the agency’s Apapa ‘Strategic Command’.
He also said that the NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI) foiled an attempt by a drug trafficker to export a 2.5-kilogramme of substance suspected to be skunk, a strain of cannabis.
”The drugs were concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos,” he said.
He added that commands and formations of the agency across the country have continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, workplaces and communities.
The NDLEA chairman, Buba Marwa, commended the agency’s DOGI and Apapa commands for the arrests and seizures.
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