NDLEA busts another Lagos cartel and seizes N5bn drugs
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over the weekend busted another tramadol cartel operating in Lagos State.
The agency seized millions of opioid pills and bottles worth over N5 billion from a warehouse in Amuwo Odofin and nabbed two of the kingpins.
Officers tracked and located the store containing pharmaceutical opioids at 17 Sir Ben Onyeka Street, off Ago Palace Way. The owner, Aloysius Okeke, has been arrested.
The drugs recovered include 3,264,630 tablets of tramadol, 3,490 bottles of codeine and 915,000 capsules of pregabalin 300 mg.
The bust came shortly after the arrest of a suspect, Olarenwaju Lawal Wahab, who distributes for the cartel.
Recovered from its distribution bus 14,690 bottles of codeine syrup, 402,500 tablets of Tramadol 250 mg, 50,000 tablets of Tramadol 225 mg and 210,000 capsules of pregabalin 300 mg.
However, on January 10, officers intercepted an imported shipment of Loud, a potent cannabis variant, weighing 4,878 kg along Awolowo Road Ikoyi.
NDLEA media chief Femi Babafemi said that after a near-fatal encounter with suspected bogus security guards escorting the drugs, officers recovered the consignment from a white truck marked BDG 548XX.
The interception was followed by the seizure of 121,630 pharmaceutical opioid tablets and a quantity of Molly from a dealer, Charles Okeke, on January 11 in the Idumota area.
However, in a remote part of Sagamu in Ogun State on Saturday, the NDLEA discovered and dismantled a clandestine laboratory.
The laboratory produced skuchies, a very powerful psychoactive substance composed of a mixture of Cannabis Sativa, Tramadol, Rohypnol, Exol-5 and industrial codeine.
Several pieces of equipment and various amounts of illicit substances used to produce the dangerous new psychoactive substance have been recovered.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) over the weekend busted another tramadol cartel operating in Lagos State.
The agency seized millions of opioid pills and bottles worth over N5 billion from a warehouse in Amuwo Odofin and nabbed two of the kingpins.
Officers tracked and located the store containing pharmaceutical opioids at 17 Sir Ben Onyeka Street, off Ago Palace Way. The owner, Aloysius Okeke, has been arrested.
The drugs recovered include 3,264,630 tablets of tramadol, 3,490 bottles of codeine and 915,000 capsules of pregabalin 300 mg.
The bust came shortly after the arrest of a suspect, Olarenwaju Lawal Wahab, who distributes for the cartel.
Recovered from its distribution bus 14,690 bottles of codeine syrup, 402,500 tablets of Tramadol 250 mg, 50,000 tablets of Tramadol 225 mg and 210,000 capsules of pregabalin 300 mg.
However, on January 10, officers intercepted an imported shipment of Loud, a potent cannabis variant, weighing 4,878 kg along Awolowo Road Ikoyi.
NDLEA media chief Femi Babafemi said that after a near-fatal encounter with suspected bogus security guards escorting the drugs, officers recovered the consignment from a white truck marked BDG 548XX.
The interception was followed by the seizure of 121,630 pharmaceutical opioid tablets and a quantity of Molly from a dealer, Charles Okeke, on January 11 in the Idumota area.
However, in a remote part of Sagamu in Ogun State on Saturday, the NDLEA discovered and dismantled a clandestine laboratory.
The laboratory produced skuchies, a very powerful psychoactive substance composed of a mixture of Cannabis Sativa, Tramadol, Rohypnol, Exol-5 and industrial codeine.
Several pieces of equipment and various amounts of illicit substances used to produce the dangerous new psychoactive substance have been recovered.
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