NDLEA intercepts 3 trailer loads of opioids, 3.5m pills, 344,000 codeine bottles

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, says its operatives have intercepted three trailer loads of opioids comprising three million four hundred and fifty thousand, 3,450,000 pills and three hundred and forty-four thousand, 344,000, bottles of codeine syrup at Abule Ado in Amuwo Odofin Local Government Area of Lagos state.

The agency revealed that the multi-billion naira consignments were loaded into two 40-ft container trucks and another 20-ft truck at the AML bonded terminal, Abule-Osun, near the International Trade Fair complex before heading to a large warehouse at Abule-Ado where

said three suspects were also arrested in connection with the seizure. Those arrested include the warehouse agent, Cosmas Obiajulu, 51; Ridwan Balogun, 25, and Banjo Tayo, 30, both drivers of two of the trucks and a third driver who jumped off to escape arrest. This was made known in a statement by Femi Babafemi, the

operatives on Tuesday arrested a suspect, Nwankwo Ejike in the Coker area of Lagos, where 100 litres of codeine syrup were recovered from him while 60 litres of the same substance were seized from Clinton Akinye in the same area same day. He also said not less than 37.5kg of cannabis sativa loaded in a Toyota Camry car was recovered from another suspect, Adegbola Segun, 47, when the car was intercepted at Mile 12 area of Lagos on Monday.

 

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