As NDLEA intercepts two boats loaded with illicit drug
consignments at Eleko beach Lagos, arrests 6 Ghanaians, Beninese
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement
Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 48-year-old businessman, Orizu Ifeanyi Arthur
while attempting to board an Air France flight 844 from the Nnamdi Azikiwe
International Airport, NAIA Abuja to Paris, France for ingesting 74 wraps of
heroin and cocaine.
Orizu was arrested at the boarding gate of the Abuja
airport on Sunday 22nd December 2024 during the outward clearance of passengers
on Air France. When he was pulled aside for body scan, he turned down the
request claiming his medical condition won’t allow him.
He was thereafter taken into custody for excretion
observation during which he excreted a total of 74 wraps of the Class A drugs
over a period of seven days.
In his statement, Orizu claimed he owns a shop at
Balogun market, Lagos Island where he sells school and travelling bags, adding
that he was promised 3,000 Euros upon successful delivery of the consignment in
Paris. He left his base in Lagos for the Abuja airport to connect his Air
France flight to Paris, hoping to escape detection.
In another interdiction effort, operatives of the
Marine Command of NDLEA at 2:30am on Christmas eve, Tuesday 24th December
intercepted two boats loaded with 1,960 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a strong
strain of cannabis at the Eleko beach in Lekki area of Lagos.
Six foreign nationals who brought the consignments
from Ghana were arrested during the operation. They include: two Ghanaians:
Godsway John, 38; and Freedom Kelvin, 33; as well as four Beninese: Chegoun
Hounsou, 23; Gadabor Nyameto, 47; Adantg Sasa, 34; and Ayao Kayivi, 21.
In Katsina, a suspect Ibrahim Shaibu, 35, was arrested
in possession of 40 album-size parcels of compressed cannabis sativa weighing
35kg on Christmas day 25th December at Central Motor Park, Katsina, while
another suspect Umar Ahmed, 47, was nabbed along Zaria-Malumfashi road, Katsina
with 27 parcels of same psychoactive substance weighing 13.5kg on Saturday 28th
December.
A 21-year-old suspect Kosisochukwu Ozigbo was arrested
at new Lagos road Benin City, Edo state when the area was raided on Monday 23rd
December by NDLEA operatives. Recovered from the suspect include: 32,490 pills
of tramadol 225mg, 200mg and 100mg; 936 bottles of codeine-based syrup and
various quantities of other opioids.
The Commands across the country balanced their drug
supply reduction operations with War Against Drug Abuse, WADA, advocacy
campaigns to schools, markets, worship centres and communities. Some of these
include: WADA sensitisation lecture delivered by Lagos State Strategic Command
in collaboration with Menitos Foundation to residents of Akoka community at
Ayetoro primary school, Akoka Bariga; while the Adamawa State command of NDLEA
delivered same lecture to members of Jama’atul Nasril Islam during their annual
first aid group and leadership camping in Adamawa among others.
While commending the efforts of the officers and men
of NAIA, Katsina, Edo and Marine Commands of the Agency for job well done in
the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed
Buba Marwa (Rtd) tasked them and their compatriots nationwide not to rest on
the achievements of 2024 but continue to raise the bar in their offensive
action against drug barons and cartels with an equal measure of WADA
sensitisation campaigns in the new year.
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