Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Wednesday 25th September arrested a wanted drug kingpin Ajiboye Damilare Samuel (a.k.a Na God) after 12 months of evading arrest.
Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in a statement said he was arrested following the raid of his warehouse in Akala, Mushin area of Lagos, where a total of 1,101kgs of Ghana Loud, a strong strain of cannabis was recovered on 4th September 2023.
The arrest of Ajiboye in a bank in Ogun State followed well-coordinated efforts by the agency’s Directorate of Assets and Financial Investigation, which traced 20 bank accounts linked to the suspect and blocked them.
In like manner, NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Friday 27th September took into custody a wanted community leader and Sarkin Yamma of Badagry, Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Talba, following the arrest of his two wives: Hauwa and Asma’u and son, Sadat as well as the seizure of a total of 226.2kgs cannabis at their homes in Badagry on 18th September.
Also, operatives of the agency arrested an automobile spare parts dealer, Ejiofor Nnaemeka Chiwuzie, over an attempt to export consignments of heroin and loud, a strain of cannabis, concealed in LED rechargeable lamps and sofa metal legs through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos.
Ejiofor was arrested on Tuesday 24th September 2024 at the Trade Fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos where he sells automobile spare parts following the seizure of his cargo containing auto parts, rechargeable lamps, sofa metal legs and electronics going to Liberia at the export shed of the Lagos airport.
He said that also concealed inside the LED lamps and sofa legs were 37 parcels of heroin weighing 1.10kgs and four blocks of loud with a total weight of 1.20kgs.
“A swift follow-up operation led to the arrest of two freight agents and then Ejiofor who sent the consignment,” Babafemi said.
In the same vein, attempts by drug trafficking networks to export consignments of loud, tramadol pills, co-codamol tablets, pentazocine injection, dihydrocodeine and promethazine tabs through some courier companies to the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Thailand and Oman were foiled by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI), attached to the logistics firms.
While 2.3kgs of loud hidden in a carton was going to Thailand, 749 grams of tramadol concealed in soles of locally made footwears were heading to Oman, with 60 ampoules of pentazocine injection going to the United States.
No less than 200 pills of co-codamol were meant for Australia while a total of 700 tablets of dihydrocodeine, promethazine and tramadol as well as 20 ampoules of pentazocine injection concealed in soles of footwears were heading to the United Kingdom.
Going to Canada were 58 ampoules of pentazocine injection hidden in female cloths.
All the seizures in the courier houses were made between Monday 23rd and Tuesday 24th September in Lagos.