Agents of the NDLEA have captured a 34-year-old South American man from Suriname, Dadda Lorenzo Harvy Albert, at Port Harcourt International Air port (PHIA), Port Harcourt, Streams State, for bringing into Nigeria 117 bundles of cocaine covered in extra-huge plastic condoms production line stuffed inside jugs of 100ml body splash.
The suspect claimed that he left his home country of Suriname on April 2 for So Paulo, Brazil, and traveled from Sao Paulo to Nigeria on a Qatar Airways flight on April 7, 2023, in search of his long-lost Nigerian father, whom he referred to as “Omini.”
Additionally, 110 parcels of Colorado, a strain of Cannabis sativa, weighing 55 kilograms and hidden in a container marked MSCU 4972769 from Toronto via Montreal, Canada, were intercepted by NDLEA officers at Lagos’ Tincan seaport.
In a statement issued yesterday, the Agency’s spokesperson stated that the illicit shipment was discovered during a joint examination of the cargo by NDLEA and other port stakeholders in the container containing five units of used vehicles.
He said that the seizure was one of 1,559.3 kilograms (1.5 tons) of the psychoactive substance that had been seized during interdiction operations in five states over the past week.
He stated, “While two suspects—Nura Ibrahim, 40, and Habibu Sadiq, 38—were arrested with 120 blocks of Cannabis sativa weighing 148.7 kilograms along Zaria-Kano road, Kano, on Sunday, April 2, not less than 418.5 kilograms of the same substance and a Sienna space bus used in its transportation were recovered on Thursday, April 6 at a notorious drug hub, Patey, Lagos Island.
“Azi Solomon, a suspect, was arrested on the same day at the Ojota garage while attempting to transport 23 kilograms of Cannabis sativa to a different state. In a similar vein, on Friday, April 7, two suspects—Abubakar Abdulahi and Stanley Tobias—were taken into custody at the Oyingbo motor park on the mainland of Lagos with 108,000 tramadol tablets.
“In Imo, NDLEA personnel on routine patrol along the Owerri-Onitsha expressway intercepted a commercial bus, resulting in the recovery of 37, 210 opioid pills, 30 bottles of codeine syrup, and the arrest of three suspects in subsequent investigations. Two suspects yielded 40.9 kilograms of Cannabis sativa, which were sized: Haruna Adamu, 32, and Salisu Ibrahim, 30, in parts of Taraba.
On Thursday, April 6, 502, 840 tramadol and exol-5 pills were found in the home of a suspect, Imrana Aliyu, in Wukari, and 205.6 kilograms were found in the home of a suspect who was fleeing in the Gida Dubu area of the Bauchi metropolis.
“The Agency’s Sokoto State Command also received 667.6 kilograms of Cannabis sativa seized by Customs Service personnel along the Illela-Niger Republic border.”
Meanwhile, NDLEA Chairman and Chief Executive Officer Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Retd) has praised the vigilance and professionalism of the personnel from the PHIA, Tincan, Kano, Lagos, Imo, Taraba, Bauchi, and Sokoto Commands of the Agency.
He encouraged them and their friends in the nation to keep up with the ongoing energy in their medication organic market decrease endeavors, and even endeavor to surpass set targets.
