60kg of cannabis sativa concealed among footwear in two jumbo sacks recovered from Aminu Mohammed along Ibadan – Oyo road, Oyo state while waiting to board a vehicle to Kebbi State
NDLEA intercepts Kenya-bound ‘Canadian Loud’ concealed in tokunbo cars, food items, UAE-bound ‘skunk’ in hard drives
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says its operatives at the Tin Can Ports in Lagos have seized 126 parcels of ‘Canadian Loud,’ a synthetic strain of cannabis sativa, weighing 63 kilograms concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada.
The anti-narcotics agency also disclosed that its operatives foiled an attempt by a freight agent, Mordi Samuel, to export 900 grams of the same substance, stashed in food items meant for export to Kenya, at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, in Lagos on Saturday, April 29.
NDLEA’s spokesperson Mr Femi Babafemi who disclosed this in a statement, Sunday, in Abuja, explained that when Mordi presented the bag of Loud, which he claimed contained food items for export, ‘operatives noticed that in the course of searching the consignment, recovered the illicit substance.’
“Also 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.
The statement also disclosed that the agency’s operatives of the 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 Emirates.’
In other operations carried out in other parts of the country. The NDLEA spokesperson said in Benue state, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based Syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer about two kilometres away from the NDLEA checkpoint along Enugu – Otukpo road on Wednesday 26th April.
“Also, 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.
‘No fewer than seven bags of cannabis with a gross weight of 74.5kg were recovered when operatives raided an uncompleted building located in a bush in Ala town, Akure area of Ondo state, just as 60kg of the same substance concealed among footwear in two jumbo sacks was recovered from one Aminu Mohammed along Ibadan – Oyo road, Oyo state while waiting to board a vehicle to Kebbi State.
“In Adamawa state, NDLEA operatives on Saturday 29th April raided a clandestine factory in Mubi, where a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, was being produced in large quantity and distributed to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.
“At the time of the raid, production activities were ongoing on the premises,” the statement read.
