NDLEA intercepts shipments of Loud from Canada in Lagos
NDLEA said it intercepted 532 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, at the Tincan Seaport in Lagos.
It announced this in a statement on Sunday.
The agency said the drugs, which weighed 265.25kg, were found inside a black Toyota Sienna bus, on Wednesday.
The statement said that the bus was one of the three vehicles in a container marked MSMU 6029570 from Montreal, Canada.
“The seizure was made during a 100 per cent joint examination with men of customs service and other stakeholders. The following day, Thursday, the operatives recorded yet another seizure of 75 parcels of the same substance weighing 37.5kg in a container marked FSCU-9274613, that came from Canada,” said the anti-narcotics agency.
The agency said its operatives in Adamawa on Thursday, with the support of men of Operation Farauta Sector 3, Mayo Belwa, detained 49-year-old Joseph Peter for drug trafficking.
It said the suspect was found with 425 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 291.200kg in his Toyota Camry car marked Lagos KSF 381 HM.
The suspect claimed he was bringing the consignment from Edo to be delivered in Yola, Adamawa.
Also, according to the statement, two suspects (Adekunle Adebayo, 50, and Yahaya Mamuda, 35) were apprehended and detained at the Gadar Tamburawa area of Kano on Tuesday with 29.5kg of cannabis.
NDLEA added that its operatives in Lagos seized 1,169 kilogrammes of the psychoactive substance concealed in a bus along Orchid Road, Ajah, on August 4.
No less than 1,230.00kg of cannabis was destroyed on three hectares of farmland at Ikeje forest, Edimogo village, Igalamela-Odolu LGA in Kogi on Friday.
“This was carried out by NDLEA officers supported by men of the Nigerian Army while the owner, Danjuma Maji, 40, was detained,” said NDLEA.
(NAN)
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