Oh No Commotion in Airport as NDLEA arrested drug dealer with 1,000bags Cannabis to London
Femi Babafemi Director, Media & Advocacy of
the agency, in a statement said Okoli
has been on court bail following his arrest in November 2020 and subsequent
arraignment before a Lagos Federal High Court for attempting to export
15.700kgs of Methamphetamine to Australia.
Several investigations into recent multiple
attempts to export illicit drugs to the United Kingdom, Babafemi said, led to
the arrest of the drug dealer on November 2, when he was caught with bags of cannabis, concealed in black soap packs
labelled as Dudu Osun, with a total weight of 12.250 kilogrammes heading to
United Kingdom.
He
said, further investigation also revealed that Okoli is the one behind the attempt
to export 7.350kgs of cannabis to the UK on October 21, a consignment that was
intercepted at NAHCO export shed of the MMIA.
“A Separate investigation by operatives of the
Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI,) of the agency,
attached to courier companies have equally traced two other attempts to export
47.7kgs of cannabis to the UK through courier firms, to Okoli after his agents
arrested in the course of investigation named him as the owner of the consignments.
“In the same vein, desperate bids by traffickers
to export over 2 kilogrammes of cocaine, methamphetamine and cannabis hidden
inside containers of body cream, tea bags, vehicle oil and air filters to
London, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirate and New Zealand through two major
courier firms in Lagos have been scuttled by narcotic officers of the agency.
“In Kano, a controlled delivery of an illicit
consignment on 5th November led to the
arrest of two suspects; Ibrahim Sulaiman and Muhammad Sani Alhassan with 23kgs
of Diazepam tablets; 2kgs of Codeine syrup and 32kgs of Exol 5 tablets,
bringing the total weight to 57kgs.
“On November 3, operatives of the Kano command of the agency arrested one
Mizambilu Tijjani, with 64kgs of cannabis sativa and Victor Nsodikwa Chu-chu,
with 34 cartons of Pentazocine injection and one carton of Diazepam injection
in Sabon gari area of the city.
“Kogi State, operatives also seized a consignment containing
28.251kgs of Exol- 5; 6.6kgs of Barcadin Codeine syrup; over 38.532kgs of
Tramadol, bringing the total drugs seized to 73.808kgs,” he added.
IN a related development, operatives of the Osun
State command have seized 130.518kgs of cannabis and 18 grammes of cocaine in
Modakeke area of Ile-Ife.
Impressed by the outcome of investigations that led to the dismantling of the
drug syndicate led by Okoli in Lagos, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig.
Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended officers and men of the MMIA command,
DOGI and their counterparts in Kano, Kogi and Osun for sustaining the heat on
the cartels across the country.
He urged them and their compatriots in other commands to intensify the
offensive action against all merchants of death in Nigeria.
1,000bags?? Na the whole country want smoke
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