NDLEA seized 1,650kg of Tramadol worth one billion three hundred and seventy five million Naira (N1, 375,000,000).
EKO HOT BLOG reports that Agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have seized no less than two million seven hundred and fifty (2,750,000) Tramadol 225mg tablets weighing 1,650 kg and valued at one billion three hundred and seventy five million Naira (N1, 375,000,000).
According to agency spokesperson Femi Babafemi, who made this announcement on Sunday in a statement, the shipment of 55 cartons of the Tramadol, Tapentadol and Carisoprodol types was confiscated, on Saturday, during inspection of container number SUDU 7538656 as a result of reliable information.
This comes on the heels of similar efforts by anti-narcotic officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja that thwarted bids by drug traffickers to export various psychoactive substances to London, UK and Dubai, UAE through the Lagos airport in the past week. At least, five suspects have so far been arrested in connection to the attempts.
On Monday 25th July, a Dubai, UAE bound passenger Ms. Ebhodaghei Gloria Osenemeshen was intercepted during the outward clearance of travellers on Rwanda Air via Kigali to Dubai. Discovered in her luggage were sachets of Tramadol 225mg concealed inside gari, a cassava product packed among other foodstuffs.
She however claimed that the bag was given to her by someone who she passed the night in his house before coming to the airport to help deliver to another person in Dubai. The following day, Tuesday 26th July, a total of 50 blocks of cannabis sativa with a total weight of 27.1kg concealed inside large quantity of crayfish going to London, UK as part of a consolidated cargo were seized at the SAHCO export shed.
Same day, a Dubai bound female passenger, Emebradu Previous Rachael, was arrested with 1.8kg cannabis packed inside bitter leaf in her luggage while attempting to board Rwanda Air flight to UAE via Kigali. The mother of one who hails from Oghara in Ethiope West Local Government Area of Delta State said she was into selling of mens wears before she decided to travel to Dubai to expand her clothing business. She claimed her ex-boyfriend that lives in Dubai, requested her to bring the bag, which contains the illicit substance along with foodstuff.
In same vein, workers at the airport’s NAHCO import facility on Saturday, July 30, evacuated cartons of khat leaf weighing a combined 51.50kg. A Royal Air Maroc jet had earlier brought the shipment in from Sierra Leone.
In Adamawa state, four notorious drug dealers in Konkol and Belel, two villages at Nigeria – Cameroon border have been arrested for exporting and retailing Tramadol and importing Diazepam into the country. The suspects include: Kabiru Ahmadu; Eric Emil; Abdulmumini Bapetel and Alphonsus Yusuf.
They yielded a total of 59.018kg of Tramadol, Diazepam, Exol-5, Cannabis Sativa, and two jerry cans of formalin substance (Suck & Die).
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