….Raids night time membership over drug get together, arrests proprietor, Fairly Mike, others
The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, has uncovered a significant drug trafficking ring involving cocaine hid in physique cream containers and methamphetamine hidden in a water heater, at the same time as operatives raided a Lagos night time membership internet hosting a drug get together.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, stated the raid was carried out within the early hours of Sunday, October 26, at Proxy Evening Membership, Victoria Island, Lagos, the place over 100 suspects had been arrested, together with the membership proprietor, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly often known as Fairly Mike.
“Cartons of illicit substances together with Loud and laughing gasoline had been recovered from suspects on the get together and within the membership’s retailer,” Babafemi stated, including that the raid adopted intelligence stories and was executed round 3 a.m.
In a separate operation, NDLEA officers on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, intercepted 70 parcels of cocaine weighing 3.6 kilograms hid in cocoa butter components physique cream containers certain for London. A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, was arrested, resulting in the seize of two key accomplices, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, a journey company CEO.
On the Akanu Ibiam Worldwide Airport, AIIA, Enugu, a 35-year-old Lesotho nationwide, Lemena Mark, was arrested whereas making an attempt to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine hid in a diabeta herbs espresso tea pack to the Philippines.
In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives arrested Umar Abubakar, 40, with 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg hidden inside a 100-litre water heater.
Equally, in Taraba State, Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, had been nabbed with 450,000 tablets of tramadol and exol-5 at a checkpoint in Dan-Anacha.
Different seizures embrace 162.2kg of skunk in Kogi, 128kg in Nasarawa, and 500 grams of Loud recovered from a significant distributor, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, in Lekki, Lagos. In Ikorodu, 275 litres of skuchies—a mixture of hashish, blackcurrant drink, and opioids—had been recovered.
NDLEA additionally reported arrests in Abia, Ondo, Kaduna, and Zamfara states, the place arms and ammunition had been seized from a suspect transporting them to bandits.
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