Skip to main content

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.

    ReplyDelete
  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.

    ReplyDelete

Post a Comment

Type your comments here

Popular posts from this blog

Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu, Wins Big In Governor Nyesom Wike's Local Government Area

The presidential candidate of the All Progressives Congress (APC) Asiwaju Ahmed Bola Tinubu, has won the Obio-Akpor, the Local Government Area of Governor Nyesom Wike in Rivers State by a landslide. Tinubu polled 80,239 votes to defeat the Candidate of the Labour Party (LP), Peter Obi, who came a distant second with 3,829 and the People’s Democratic Party (PDP), who got 368 votes.
Post a Comment
Read more

In A Flash- Nigerian News Dailies

Punch   • Plateau killings: Don’t allow Nigeria become ungovernable under you, CAN tells Tinubu The Christian Association of Nigeria in the 19 Northern States and  Abuja, on Wednesday, condemned terrorists attack on communities in Barkin Ladi, Bokkod and Mangu Local Government Areas of Plateau State which claimed no fewer than 160 lives... • NAF bombs six illegal refineries in Rivers The air component of Operation Delta Safe has destroyed six illegal oil refining sites in the Degema Local Government Area of Rivers State. The illegal sites were said to be clustered within an approximately 80-metre radius, situated approximately six nautical miles south of Opu Arugbana. Sahara Reporters BREAKING: Ondo Governor, Akeredolu Dies After Prolonged Battle With Leukemia The Ondo State Governor, Rotimi Akeredolu, is dead. Rotimi Akeredolu A family source told SaharaReporters on Wednesday that Akeredolu died in Lagos. SaharaReporters learnt that he was managed by State House doctors up to...
Post a Comment
Read more

Over 100 Persons Killed In Brazil's Devastating Mudslides

Deaths in Brazil floods, mudslides top 100 Many may be trapped in mud that cascaded down on the city this week during the most intense storm in decades. Rescue workers are racing against time, searching for any remaining survivors among mud and wreckage after devastating flash floods and landslides hit the picturesque Brazilian city of Petropolis, as authorities said on Thursday the death toll had risen to 110. Streets were turned into rivers and houses swept away when heavy storms dumped a month’s worth of rain in three hours on the scenic tourist town in the hills north of Rio de Janeiro. With dozens still reported missing, fears that the death toll could climb further sent firefighters and volunteers scrambling through the remains of houses washed away in torrents of mud, many of them in impoverished hillside slums. Read More Of The News Here, Source: Aljazeera Sad!
1 comment
Read more