….Raids evening membership over drug social gathering, arrests proprietor, Fairly Mike, others
The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, has uncovered a serious drug trafficking ring involving cocaine hid in physique cream containers and methamphetamine hidden in a water heater, whilst operatives raided a Lagos evening membership internet hosting a drug social gathering.
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, mentioned the raid was carried out within the early hours of Sunday, October 26, at Proxy Evening Membership, Victoria Island, Lagos, the place over 100 suspects had been arrested, together with the membership proprietor, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly referred to as Fairly Mike.
“Cartons of illicit substances together with Loud and laughing gasoline had been recovered from suspects on the social gathering and within the membership’s retailer,” Babafemi mentioned, including that the raid adopted intelligence studies and was executed round 3 a.m.
In a separate operation, NDLEA officers on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos, intercepted 70 parcels of cocaine weighing 3.6 kilograms hid in cocoa butter components physique cream containers certain for London. A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, was arrested, resulting in the seize of two key accomplices, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, a journey company CEO.
On the Akanu Ibiam Worldwide Airport, AIIA, Enugu, a 35-year-old Lesotho nationwide, Lemena Mark, was arrested whereas trying to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine hid in a diabeta herbs espresso tea pack to the Philippines.
In Kwara State, NDLEA operatives arrested Umar Abubakar, 40, with 21,950 capsules of tramadol 250mg hidden inside a 100-litre water heater.
Equally, in Taraba State, Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, had been nabbed with 450,000 capsules of tramadol and exol-5 at a checkpoint in Dan-Anacha.
Different seizures embrace 162.2kg of skunk in Kogi, 128kg in Nasarawa, and 500 grams of Loud recovered from a serious distributor, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, in Lekki, Lagos. In Ikorodu, 275 litres of skuchies—a mixture of hashish, blackcurrant drink, and opioids—had been recovered.
NDLEA additionally reported arrests in Abia, Ondo, Kaduna, and Zamfara states, the place arms and ammunition had been seized from a suspect transporting them to bandits.
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