The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) apprehended massive consignments of Ghanaian Loud trafficked into Lagos in two trucks and a J5 bus, totaling 14, 524.8 kilogrammes.
Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, announced this in a statement on Sunday.
According to the NDLEA’s statement, three trucks with huge bags of the psychoactive narcotic were tracked down and intercepted in Lagos’ Ojuelegba neighbourhood early Sunday morning, January 28.
The statement from the NDLEA reads, “In the process of blocking the vehicles, two of the drivers jumped off on motion while the third driver, 66-year-old Nasiru Ojomu, who works with wanted Akala, Mushin-based drug baron Suleiman Jimoh (alias Olowo Idi Ogede, also known as Temo), was arrested.
“In the last three years, NDLEA operatives have seized several shipments of the same psychoactive substance worth billions of naira linked to Temo. The wanted drug lord has since gone into hiding while the agency continues a manhunt for him.”
Among other arrests made in various states throughout the country, the statement stated that a male deaf and dumb suspect trafficking in illegal substances was apprehended in the Samaru region of Zaria, Kaduna.
It read, “At the time of his arrest, 150 grammes of cannabis were recovered from him while selling the psychoactive substance. Another suspect, Ibrahim Sani, 56, was also arrested in possession of 51 kilogrammes of the same substance in the Tirkaniya area of the state.
“In Kogi State, operatives on Wednesday, January 31st, destroyed 833.32 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa on a two-acre farmland in Iluke community, Kabba-Bunu LGA, while the owner, Samuel Atonila, 49, was equally arrested.
“On the same day, operatives in Nasarawa also arrested three suspects: Muhammed Musa, Bilyaminu Musa, and Sadiya Ya’u, with the same psychoactive substance weighing 24.4kg at Uke, Karu local government area of the state, while no less than 258 kilogrammes of the same substance were recovered from a bush store around Ikare bypass, Owo, Ondo state.”
