LAGOS, Nigeria (VOICE OF NAIJA)- Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have intercepted 99 pieces of improvised explosive devices from one Asana Leke along Mokwa-Jebba Road.
The suspect, who said the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadan, Oyo State, to be delivered to someone in Kaduna, has since, alongside the exhibits, been transferred to the military authorities in Niger State.
A spokesperson for the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure on Sunday, noting that the agency also arrested a 60-year-old grandmother, Mrs. Eunice Egwehide, in Owan West LGA of Edo State with 17kg skunk.
This is as the agency also arrested a 40-year-old, Amuodu Egwehide, with 22 bags of skunk weighing 261.4kgs while cannabis farms measuring 4.236347 hectares were destroyed by operatives in Ekudo forest, Onwude LGA of the state.
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According to the agency, consignments of skunk concealed in tomato pastes and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, were also intercepted at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
“While the skunk in tomato pastes consignment weighing 20kgs was intercepted on Friday, September 8, at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, the meth shipment with a gross weight of 1.60kg was seized at a courier company in Lagos.
“Another consignment of 556 grammes of Canadian Loud sent from Canada to one Tunji Adebayo in Ikorodu, Lagos, was also intercepted by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, attached to courier firms.
“Though Adebayo was not home when operatives visited his house at 52 Aina Atoloye Street, Ikorodu, he, however, directed his younger brother to sign for the package on his behalf. The brother was promptly arrested,” Babafemi said.
Meanwhile, in Kaduna, two suspects, Ahmed Yusuf and Rilwan Nura, were reportedly arrested on 6 September in connection with the seizure of 100 blocks of cannabis weighing 55kgs along Abuja road.
