Mr Babafemi added that 13,800 tramadol pills abandoned by a suspect going to Geidam in Yobe were also recovered at Yankaba Park, Kano, on June 14.
NDLEA officers accosted Mr Oluchukwu, travelling to Doha with an Ivorien passport in the name of Hien Narcisse.
In the forest, operatives located a large skunk warehouse used to store 231 jumbo bags of psychotropic substances.
During a visit to the agency’s office on Thursday in Abuja, the U.S. praised the tremendous work done so far by the Marwa-led NDLEA.
The illicit drug consignment weighing 30.10 kilogrammes with a street value of N567 million was detected and seized by NDLEA operatives at the airport on Tuesday, May 16.
Mr Babafemi said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that drugs recovered from them included cannabis, methamphetamine, tramadol and swinol.
Mr Babafemi said the drugs were seized at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Friday in Lagos.
Others include 1000 tablets of Tramadol 200mg with a gross weight of 600 grams; 2, 300 capsules of Tramadol 100mg weighing 800 grams and 60 tablets of Rohypnol 1mg, weighing 19 grams.
Mr Babafemi said operatives, during a special operation that lasted weeks, recovered different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine.
Mr Babafemi said the seized drugs were with a gross weight of 304.90 kilogrammes and were recovered after a joint examination by stakeholders on Friday, November 11.
