The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has intercepted 4,560 kilograms of skunk in an interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa and Osun states.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi mentioned in an announcement on Sunday in Abuja, that operatives additionally bursted a skucchies factory in Ogun and arrested 4 suspects.
He mentioned that the 4 belong to a drug syndicate, they usually included two church officers, a feminine workers of a courier firm and one other lady concerned in trafficking deadly opioid, Fentanyl, in Delta.
According to him, the burst of the fentanyl cartel working from Warri in Delta, is coming barely a month after two members of one other syndicate, Odoh Oguejiofor and Oliver Uzoma, have been arrested.
“They were arrested at Ogbogwu market, Onitsha Head Bridge, Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State following months of intelligence-led investigation of the syndicates behind the dangerous drug which is 100 times more potent than heroin.
“It is currently responsible for over 70% overdose deaths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the United States,” he mentioned.
Meanwhile, Two officers of Christ Mercyland Deliverance Ministries (aka Mercy City Church), Warri, Adewale Ayeni, 39, and Ebipakebina Appeal, 41, linked to 2 intercepted consignments of the illicit drug have been arrested.
Mr Babafemi mentioned that Ayeni was a type of managing the prayer name centre of the church, whereas Ebipakebina was in cost of the motion of worldwide friends from the airport to the church.
“Two female accomplices also arrested in Warri in the course of investigating the intercepted shipments include Naomi David, 28.
“She was a staff of United Parcel Services (UPS), and Stacy Njideka, also known as Nkiruka, 27, who is a business associate of Ayeni, ” he mentioned.
In one other improvement, operatives of the company on July, 5 intercepted a Toyota Hilux car marked EPE 863 XD alongside Ngurore-Mayo Belwa highway, Adamawa.
Mr Babafemi mentioned {that a} search of the van with two occupants: Kelvin Efe, 51, and Christian Ogaga, 42, confirmed that 118 cartoons of Indomie Noodles packs have been used to hide 544 blocks of compressed hashish sativa.
He mentioned that the medication which was weighing 408kg have been hidden in a false compartment and meant for distribution in Yola, Mubi and Gombe.
Also, in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on July 1, arrested a suspect, Segun Odeyemi conveying 89 jumbo baggage of skunk with a complete weight of 3,842kg in his truck round Eleganza space of Ajah, Lekki.
Mr Babafemi mentioned that an deserted J5 Peugeot bus marked AAA 521 SQ with baggage of recent pepper used to hide 25 baggage of hashish sativa weighing 300.5kg was recovered alongside Akure-Ilesa expressway in Osun..
This, he mentioned was after its occupants sighted NDLEA officers on patrol on July, 7.
However, operatives in Ogun, on July 6 raided a skucchies factory at Ajaka Sagamu the place a suspect, Adekunle Adekola was arrested.
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