Two Ghanaian nationals; Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27
NDLEA seizes 834.2kg skunk consignments from two Ghanaian traffickers in Lagos
Anti-narcotics agency of the Federal Government, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), says its operatives in Lagos have intercepted two imported consignments of ‘Loud,’ a strong strain of cannabis sativa, with a combined total weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area in the state.
According to the agency’s Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, Sunday, the discovery followed credible intelligence which the NDLEA operatives acted upon as they ‘laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday 19th June. The truck driver however jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Toyota Hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilized the truck conveying the drug exhibits.’
The NDLEA spokesperson also disclosed that the agency’s officers of the Marine Command the following day, Tuesday, June20 ‘also acting on intelligence intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910kg around Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana. Two Ghanaian nationals; Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, found with the consignments were promptly arrested.
In other operations carried out by the NDLEA, Babafemi disclosed that in Niger State “two suspects; Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were arrested on Sunday 18th June along Abuja expressway, Suleja with 31 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 517kg, while a 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday 21st June at Ogbogodo village, Dekina LGA, Kogi state.
“A suspected fake female security agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was also nabbed at Ajegunle Asa Dam Area of Ilorin, Kwara State with 30kg of cannabis on Thursday 22nd June, while in Oyo state, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 49.2kg of same substance on Saturday 24th June in Oyo town.
“Operatives in Edo state stormed Ekudo forest, Uhunmwode LGA where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects namely: Onyeka Onyedinma; Monday Onyedi; Alex Eboh; Edosa Imariagbe; Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday 19th June,” the NDLEA reported.
