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\nFor a wanted 60-year-old drug kingpin, seven years of evading the law is over after landing in the dragnet of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
\nNDLEA\u2019s Director of Media and Advocacy, Mr Femi Babafemi announced the suspect’s arrest in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja.
\nBabafemi said that the suspect was caught while attempting to transport large quantities of cocaine and methamphetamine to the South East Zone and other parts of the country.
\nHe said that the suspect, who had been on the wanted list of NDLEA since 2019, was eventually nabbed at his hideout in the Isheri area of Lagos on July 13.
\nThe breakthrough, he said, followed the interception of some of the suspect’s consignments at 5:45 a.m. on the same day at Ilasamaja on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.
\nBabafemi said a team of NDLEA officers, acting on credible intelligence, had arrested one of the kingpin\u2019s couriers.
\nHe said the courier was heading to Onitsha, Anambra, in a white Toyota Sienna vehicle.
\nBabafemi said the agency\u2019s sniffer dogs were subsequently brought in to search the vehicle.
\nAccording to him, 7.6 kg of cocaine and 900 grams of methamphetamine were found hidden in body compartments of the vehicle.
\nHe said a follow up operation was promptly carried out at the kingpin\u2019s hideout in Isheri.
\nAdditional 1.8kg of cocaine and 1.3kg of methamphetamine, he said, were recovered from his residence.
\nBabafemi also said that NDLEA operatives in a joint operation with Aviation Security personnel of the Federal Airports Authority of Nigeria recovered 7,790 pills of tramadol and rohypnol.
\nBabafemi said the drugs, which were in the luggage of an Italy-bound passenger, were intercepted at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport on Wednesday.
\nHe said that the suspect, who was going to Italy via Istanbul on a Turkish Airlines flight, claimed he purchased the drugs himself, hoping to sell them in that country at higher prices.
\nIn another arrest at the Lagos airport, Babafemi said NDLEA operatives at the export shed on Thursday intercepted 17 parcels of skunk, a strain of cannabis.
\nBabafemi said that the drugs, which weighed 1.70kg, were concealed in packs of a popular cereal going to Pakistan as part of a consolidated cargo.
\nAccording to him, a suspect was arrested in connection with the incident.
\nIn another development, Babafemi said 45,000 pills of tramadol were seized from a 30-year-old suspect on the Onitsha-Enugu Expressway on Wednesday.
\nBabafemi added that officers of the Taraba command on the same day apprehended two suspects with illicit drugs.
\nHe said that 10,000 caps of tramadol and a gram of cannabis were recovered from them in Gassol Local Government Area. (NAN)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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