The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has foiled the attempt by an alleged trans-border trafficker to smuggle 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg from Ghana into Lagos. The Director, Media and Advocacy of the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that the interception came in another intelligence-led operation on Saturday. According to him, the pills were concealed in the body compartments of a Toyota Hummer Bus belonging to GUO Transport Company, driven by the suspect. He added that the vehicle was intercepted at Ijanikin area of the Lagos -Badagry expressway while coming from Ghana . In another development, not less than 997kg cannabis was recovered during raids in parts of Edo state in the past week.
Babafemi said that personnel of Kano Command of the agency on Friday arrested 30-year-old man at Gadar Tamburawa, Kano- Zaria road, where they recovered 65,730 capsules of tramadol from him. Also, in Kwara , he said NDLEA operatives arrested a suspect with 120.8kg cannabis and some litres of codeine at Gaa Odota in Ilorin West LGA. Babafemi said a suspected drug peddler was nabbed with 75kg cannabis at Eziobodo, Owerri West LGA, Imo State on Thursday, November 14. “A total of 563.
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