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N194 Billion Naira Worth Of Hard Drug Discovered As NDLEA Bust Cocaine Warehouse In Lagos



President Muhammadu Buhari has congratulated the  chairman of the Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Brig Gen Buba Marwa (retd) after the agency  seized hard drugs worth N194 billion naira.

The agency reported that they seized about 1,855kilograms of cocaine and arrested the drug barons, after they raided a warehouse  in the Ikorodu area of Lagos, southwest Nigeria.

The cocaine seized from the warehouse is worth more than Two Hundred and Seventy-Eight Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($278, 250,000) equivalent to about One Hundred and Ninety Four Billion, Seven Hundred and Seventy-Five Million (N194, 775,000,000) Naira in street value.

President Muhammadu Buhari who is presently in New York for the 77th session of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 77), said the NDLEA boss should keep up the good work.

Four drug barons including a Jamaican and the warehouse manager have been arrested.
The kingpins of the cocaine cartel in custody include Messrs Soji Jibril, 69, an indigene of Ibadan, Oyo state; Emmanuel Chukwu, 65, who hails from Ekwulobia, Anambra state; Wasiu Akinade, 53, from Ibadan, Oyo state; Sunday Oguntelure, 53, from Okitipupa, Ondo state and Kelvin Smith, 42, a native of Kingston, Jamaica.

Comments

  1. Empressdara20 September 2022 at 04:46

    Bravo!!!!
    What an incredible job.
    Kudos to the agency Officers and Men for being proactive and also ahead of the barons in tactics and antics. May the Lord Almighty continue to protect them in this wonderful assignment of eliminating illicit substances in and out of the country. Drug abuse and trafficking is a menace that must be fought wholeheartedly by all the stakeholders.

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  2. Anonymous20 September 2022 at 08:43

    If you check very well, some key people in the society and the government are involved hence this large volume.
    Kudos to NDLEA officials.

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