NDLEA arrests Lekki-based bizman, undergraduate, others for drug trafficking
Abiodun SanusiA Lekki-based businessman, Cyril Chidiebere, was arrested alongside two of his freight agents; Mejabi Sunday and Oyeyinka Babatunde, over their involvement in the importation of 12 parcels of Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 6.50kg which was part of a consolidated cargo brought in from the United States of America.
Following the arrival of the cargo at the NAHCO import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, its movement out of the airport was closely monitored in a sting operation until the actual importer, Chidiebere, was arrested in his house at Abraham Adesanya estate, Ajah, Lekki. Meanwhile, a pregnant woman, Rabetu Abdulrasak, 24, and a cripple, Shehu Adams were arrested by NDLEA operatives in Agbede, Etsako West LGA, Edo state while over 14 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs including cannabis, methamphetamine, tramadol and swinol were recovered from them on Saturday, April 15.
1,100ml codeine-based cough syrup and 283 grams of cannabis were recovered from her. While two young men, Nonso Peter, 21, and Bright Chibike, 23, were arrested with 43.4kg cannabis at Ile-Epo, Abule Egba area of Lagos state a day earlier.
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