Nigeria: NDLEA Intercepts Drug-Laden Fuel Tanker With 2.1 Tonnes of Cannabis
[Leadership] The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a 20,000-litre fuel tanker fitted with a concealed compartment containing 2,145kg of cannabis, in a major breakthrough in its nationwide crackdown on illicit drug trafficking.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted a 20,000-litre fuel tanker fitted with a concealed compartment containing 2,145kg of cannabis in Lagos. The agency also recovered over two million pills of opioids in coordinated operations across several states, including Lagos, Adamawa, Ondo, Kaduna, Bauchi, Ekiti, Kogi, Taraba, and Enugu.
Additionally, a convicted cocaine trafficker who had served a five-year jail term was arrested. The operations were part of the NDLEA's intensified War Against Drug Abuse (WADA). In Lagos, 34-year-old Dunu Bethel Ebubechukwu was arrested at Article Market for masterminding an illicit drug shipment destined for Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The suspect had allegedly changed his name and returned to the illicit drug trade after his previous arrest in 2011. In another operation in Lagos, the NDLEA recovered 966,200 tablets of Tramadol 225mg and 57.8kg of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, concealed in shipments from Pakistan and Singapore, respectively. In Ondo State, a 20,000-litre fuel tanker carrying 2,145kg of cannabis was intercepted along the Akoko/Lokoja Expressway.
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