By Gom Mirian
No fewer than 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, and a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 63 kilograms are reported to have been seized in Lagos, says the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
According to the agency, the illicit drugs seized by its operatives were concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada at the Tincan Port in Lagos
Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi disclosed this in a statement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said the agency also foiled an attempt by a freight agent named Mordi Samuel, to export 900 grams of the same substance, hidden in food items, to Kenya, at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on Sunday.
He explained that when Mordi presented the bag, which he claimed contained food items for export, operatives noticed that in the course of searching the consignment, they recovered the illicit substance.
He said on Friday 28th April, NDLEA operatives at the Tincan port intercepted 63kg Canadian Loud packed in bags in the boot of one of the five used vehicles in a container coming from Toronto via Montreal, during a joint examination with other stakeholders at the port
Mr. Babafemi in another development said men of the Agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms also on Thursday 27th April intercepted a 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirate.
“In Benue, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine based Syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer about two kilometres away from NDLEA checkpoint along Enugu – Otukpo road on Wednesday 26th April, while two suspects: Kabiru Muhammed, 35, and Isah Muhammed, 28, were arrested with 20 blocks of cannabis weighing 11.2kg concealed in a bag of cassava flakes (garri) along Zaria-Kano road, Kano on Friday 28th April”.
