NDLEA seizes drugs hidden in imported cars

At the Tincan port in Lagos, agents of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) discovered 126 parcels of Canadian Loud, a synthetic cannabis strain, weighing 63 kilograms and hidden inside a used Toyota Corolla imported from Toronto, Canada.

This is despite the fact that on April 29, NDLEA officers at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, foiled an attempt by a freight agent, Mordi Chukwuemeka Samuel, to export 900 grams of the same substance, Loud, hidden inside walls of a travel bag containing food items, to Kenya.

Spokesman of the Agency, Femi Babafemi said that “When Modi presented the bag, which he claimed contained food items for export, operatives noticed that in the course of searching the consignment, the side walls of the bag were unevenly bloated, after which they dismantled the false packings and recovered the illicit substance”.

“Similarly, men of the Agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms also on Thursday 27th April intercepted 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirate”.

On April 26, agents in Benue found 859 bottles of codeine-based syrup weighing 117.3 kg that had been left behind by a suspected dealer two kilometres from the NDLEA checkpoint on the Enugu-Otukpo road.

On Friday, April 28, two suspects, Kabiru Muhammad, 35, and Isah Muhammad, 28, were apprehended with 20 blocks of cannabis totalling 11.2kg hidden in a bag of cassava flakes (garri).

When agents searched an unfinished building hidden in a bush in Ala town, Akure area of Ondo state, they found seven bags of marijuana totalling 74.5kg in weight.

“The previous day, 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 marked, TLLU4840762 coming from Toronto via Montreal, during a joint examination with other stakeholders at the port.