NDLEA operatives arrest 25 drug suspects in Abuja

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Twenty-five (25) drug suspects have been apprehended by the operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in different raids in the

Femi Babafemi, the spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, in a statement on Sunday, explained that New Kuchingoro Internally Displaced Persons Camp located in the FCT is one of the places where the suspects were arrested.

The NDLEA spokesperson further revealed, “Another bid to smuggle into Lagos a consignment of 24kgs cannabis concealed in imported used cars from Canada was again frustrated by NDLEA operatives who seized the illicit substance on Thursday, May 11, during a joint 100% examination of a container marked, MSMU 7412069, at the Prime Connection Bonded terminal, off Oshodi-Apapa expressway.”

He also disclosed that two businessmen have both excreted 193 pellets of the illicit drug after three days in observatory custody, saying that they were arrested by operatives at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja. He said that they both travelled to Uganda and from there crossed over to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia where they picked the consignments before returning to Abuja with Lagos as their final destination.

 

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