Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested five cross-border female drug traffickers at the Seme border while on their way back to Lagos from Ghana.
Spokesman for the anti-narcotic Agency disclosed this on Sunday in a statement, assuring that the suspects will have their date in Court in due time.
A Special Operations Unit in NDLEA swooped on members of the gang
Olaribigbe Bashirat Feyisara, Abogun Fatimah Ladidi; Osibeluwo Tolulope Oluwaseun; Akanni Balikis Oluwatoyin and Ajetumobi Amudalat.
Leader of the syndicate, 42-year-old Olaribigbe Bashirat Feyisara has been under NDLEA radar before being tracked and arrested along with others on Wednesday 21st August 2024.
He said a total of 14 packs of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, weighing a total of 6.97kg, were recovered from hidden parts of their bodies at the point of their arrest at the Seme border.
Elsewhere at the Tincan seaport in Lagos State, NDLEA operatives, intercepted two containers, which came from Mundra port in India on Friday 23rd August 2024.
The statement said no fewer than 1,596 cartons of codeine-based syrup containing 319, 200 bottles of the opioid were recovered from the containers during a joint examination with other port stakeholders.
Street value of the consignment was estimated at Two Billion Two Hundred and Thirty-Four Million Four Hundred Thousand Naira (N2,234,400,000.00).
Two ladies were arrested by operatives in Edo State for online sales of illicit drugs, according to NDLEA.
Martha Owotorofa, 26, was nabbed at Kada Plaza, Benin city with quantities of Canadian Loud, while Odion Uzordinma, 21, was arrested at Ugbowo area in Egor Local Government Area of the State with 30 cups of cookies and 17 slices of cake, all laced with illicit substances.
A raid operation at Oghada village, Uhunmwonde local government area of the state on Tuesday 20th August led to the arrest of Saturday Edobor, 50, with 288.8kg cannabis.
Meanwhile, an Onitsha, Anambra State based-businessman, Ibeanusi Solomon Nosike, has excreted 68 wraps of cocaine.
He was said to have excreted the substance
after 12 days of excretion observation following his arrest at the local wing of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos by the Agency operatives.
The 36-year-old Ibeanusi, according a statement by the Agemcy, was arrested in the early hours of Thursday 8th August 2024 at the old domestic terminal of the Lagos airport.
He was nabbed while attempting to board the first flight out of Lagos to Abuja where he was scheduled to join a Qatar Airways flight to Vietnam at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja at about 10am same day.
The suspect who came under NDLEA surveillance following intelligence had arrived Lagos from his base in Onitsha, Anambra State the previous day, 7th August and lodged in a hotel where he swallowed the 68 wraps of cocaine before heading to the airport for a 6:30am flight the following morning.
The suspect, was thereafter intercepted by NDLEA operatives who moved him into excretion observation where he spent the next 12 days excreting the cocaine pellets weighing 1.282 kilograms.
NDLEA said another Vietnam-bound businessman, 54-year-old Paul Okwuy Mbadugha was also arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Abuja airport on Monday 12th August 2024.
He was caught during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha after he tested positive to ingestion of cocaine.
Mbadugha egested a total of 88 wraps of the illicit drug with a gross weight of 1.710 kilograms, after four days under observation.
In the same vein, another Onitsha based businessman, Aligbo Chukwudi Jacob has been arrested by NDLEA operatives after the seizure of a consignment of 1.20kg cannabis concealed in a package going to Dubai, UAE.
At the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had intercepted the shipment at the export shed of the Lagos airport by NDLEA men.
Investigations revealed the cargo was sent through a courier company in Onitsha. After series of follow up operations, Aligbo was eventually arrested in Onitsha on Saturday 17th August.
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