The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has announced that its operatives have seized a multi-billion naira illicit drugs warehouse at the
The anti-narcotic agency disclosed that items recovered from the warehouse, allegedly owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron, include: 1.4 million pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 826kgs; 3.2 million pills of codeine with gross weight of 3,360kgs; and 2,841 cartons of codeine syrup containing 284,100 bottles with 28,410 litres of the psychoactive substance, with a combined street value of N4,820,500,000.
The agency said the latest drug warehouse bust is coming on the heels of the arrest of an alleged drug baroness, Faith Ebele Nwankwo, who was nabbed on Wednesday with 2,750,000 pills of tramaking, a brand of tramadol 225mg and 250mg, recovered from her residence in Lagos. Another suspect, Jude Ndubuisi, 52, was arrested on Thursday with 2.2 kilograms of methamphetamine during a raid at Kabusa village, FCT.
Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives on Saturday in Osun State destroyed clusters of cannabis farms measuring about 3.49000 hectares at Mopatedo in the Ifedayo Local Government Area of the State. While another shipment of controlled drugs containing 6,000 capsules of tramadol, 1,200 tablets of swinol, 155 bottles of codeine syrup and 20 tabs of Molly was equally seized on the same road on Sunday with a follow-up operation in the Oyigbo area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, leading to the arrest of the owner of the consignment, Remigius Ogechukwu, 33.
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