Babafemi mentioned through the search witnessed by the property officers, 606 grams of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital scale, giant portions of medication in plastic packaging, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, amongst others, have been recovered. and, amongst different issues, her photograph body.
He mentioned the suspect, also called Mrs. Aderinoye Queen Christmas, “was declared wished by the Company after she escaped from her residence in Lekki, Lagos, when NDLEA operatives raided her condo at Oral Property, Lekki on Wednesday, January 24 after credible data she trades. unlawful substances.
Babafemi: “The suspect was Miss Commonwealth Nigeria Tradition 2015/2016 and founding father of Queen Christmas Basis. Objects recovered from her residence embody 606 grams of Canadian Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish, an digital scale, giant portions of medication wrapped in plastic, a black RAV 4 SUV marked Lagos KSF 872 GQ, and her spouse. together with photograph frames.”
He additionally mentioned that two members of a world drug trafficking syndicate: “Sunday Michael Owoborode, 52, and Valentine Anene have been arrested the following day Thursday, January 25, at Edu Orita, Ogun State the place Valentine was ready to journey to Qatar with some medicine . day aboard a Qatar airline flight from Lagos.
He mentioned: “On the time of their arrest, 1.8kg of hashish, digital scales and different unlawful substances have been discovered on it. In one other interdiction operation by operatives in Lagos, a 50-year-old Sunday Adediran was arrested on Wednesday, January 24, with 20kg of hashish sativa present in one of many rooms in his home in Mushin Olosha.”
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He additionally mentioned that operatives arrested a returnee from Brazil, Udechukwu Ekene Theophilus, on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, for ingesting 60 giant wrappers of cocaine.
He mentioned the suspect who was arrested through the customs clearance of passengers on a Syrian Airways flight from Sao Paulo, Brazil by way of Addis Ababa, Ethiopia on the D arrivals corridor of Lagos Airport on Sunday, January 21, 2024, initially refused to endure a physique scan endure. , elevating well being issues in a determined try and keep away from arrest.
Babafemi mentioned: “Nevertheless, when different choices have been introduced to him, he accepted being positioned on excretion commentary and shortly after being taken to the NDLEA Observatory, he excreted the primary set of cocaine pellets after which he excreted a complete of 60 wraps of the cocaine . class A drug weighing 1.279 kilograms in 5 excretions.
“In his assertion, Udechukwu claimed that he took the consignment in Brazil and needed to unload all the things at Addis Ababa airport however he might solely excrete 15 pellets which he handed over to a different member of his syndicate earlier than his connecting flight to Nigeria was known as,” the assertion reads.
He mentioned in the identical vein, NDLEA operatives on Tuesday, January 23, on the Lagos Airport, recovered a complete of 12 containers of Tramadol 225mg containing 5 hundred and ninety-nine thousand 9 hundred (599,900) drugs weighing 385.40kg from an overlong cargo stay at Lagos airport. SAHCO imports shed from Lagos airport following a joint investigation with different companies. He mentioned that they had, nonetheless, since then been underneath the surveillance of NDLEA operatives.
The assertion reads: “The tramadol cargo had entered the nation in two batches on KLM Royal Dutch Airline flights from Karachi, Pakistan between July 27 and August 1, 2023.
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“At least 822 kilograms of hashish sativa, hidden from a petroleum station in Ashipa group alongside Badagry-Seme highway, was recovered by operatives of the Seme Particular Space Command of NDLEA, whereas a suspect Sani Audu, 35, was arrested with 111.3 kg of hashish. the identical substance in Maigatari city, Jigawa State on Tuesday, January 23.
“In Yobe State, two suspects: Mohammed Usman and Adamu Ma'azu have been arrested on Saturday, January 27, with 49 blocks of hashish sativa weighing 50kg at Damaturu motor park, Damaturu, whereas the duo Paul Obor, 38, and Dennis Fuokorighe, 48, who have been arrested on Wednesday, January 24, at a Navy checkpoint, Itobe, Ofu LGA, Kogi State with 318 compressed blocks of hashish sativa weighing 190.8kg hid in a gold Honda Accord Automotive marked RBC 449AE, have been handed over to Kogi State command of the Company on Friday, January 26, by males of the Nigeria Navy Ship, Lugard, Lokoja.
“In Kano, a suspect, Shamwilu Idris, 29, was on Thursday, January 25, arrested at Gadar Tamburawa space with 271kg of hashish following the seizure of an deserted 28.1kg of the identical substance in Rijiyar Lemo space of the state on Wednesday January 24. One other suspect, Abubakar Haruna Salisu, 24, was on Friday, January 26, arrested at Kotun Wambai, Yan Awaki, Kano space with 600 bottles of codeine based mostly syrup, whereas a complete of 1,306 blocks of hashish weighing 886kg have been seized by the police in Kwanar Dangora, part of the state was handed over to the Company on Wednesday, January 24.
“A complete of 87 compressed blocks of hashish sativa weighing 73 kg, in addition to 21, 346 drugs of tramadol and three,800 tablets of diazepam have been recovered from a suspect, Musa Galadima, on Friday, January 26, when his DAF truck marked GME 971 was intercepted at Lafiyawo, alongside the Gombe – Bauchi highway by NDLEA operatives. In Plateau State, Aminu Ubanta, 35, was arrested with 5.355kg of hashish in Layin Zana space of Jos on Saturday, January 27.
“With equal vigor, the assorted Company instructions throughout the nation continued the Battle Towards Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy marketing campaign this previous week. A few of these embody a WADA sensitization lecture to college students of Authorities Day Main and Secondary College, Jiddel Michika, Adamawa State; college students of Soltab Complete Faculty, Abeokuta, Ogun State; college students and academics of Sangotedo Main College, Ajah, Lagos State; college students and academics of ADS Fundamental Main College 1&2, Ogbomoso, Oyo State; college students and academics of Farfanu Malami Secondary College, Magama Jibia, Katsina State; and WADA advocacy go to to, amongst others, His Royal Highness, Dr. Gibson Nwabueze Nwosu, Eze Uzu 11 of Awka, Anambra State.
As we commend the officers and males of the MMIA, Lagos, Seme, Kano, Gombe, Kogi, Plateau and Jigawa instructions of the Company for his or her sterling efficiency up to now week.
“Chairman/Chief Govt Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Normal Mohamed Buba Marwa (retd) additionally applauded their counterparts in all instructions throughout the nation for intensifying their WADA advocacy lectures, making a stability between their drug provide discount actions and of the demand for medicine.”
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