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PICTORIAL: NDLEA Nabs Engineer With Drug Concealed In Pressure Machines

by Ejike Ejike
8 months ago
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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Egwu Phillip Inya, who claims to be a building engineer, while attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.

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Egwu, 42, was arrested on Monday December 2, 2024 at Okeyson Motor Park in Enugu when he showed up to collect three units of pressure machines inside which were hidden parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.

The consignments had arrived the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November, 2024.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday explained that “following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.

“The importer however changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow-up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments.”

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Also, no fewer than 511,000 pills of tramadol were recovered from a Siena vehicle at Hildi, Askira Uba way in Adamawa State by NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of Friday, December 6.

The anti-narcotic agency said occupants of the vehicle had made a detour on sighting the NDLEA team at a distance, abandoning the vehicle with the consignments after noticing that the operatives were on their trail.

Alos, in Ekiti State, two suspects – Olanrewaju Alale, 48, and Babatunde Kayode Ijadahun, 55, were arrested along Ise-Emure Road in a J5 bus marked EPE 958 XJ while transporting 108 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1, 323 kilograms to Owo, Ondo State from where they claimed the consignment will be moved to the North for distribution.

Another suspect, Adekunle Yusuf, 33, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives with 704 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance, concealed in white sacks on Friday, December 6, on Idere Road, Igboora, Oyo State.

In Lagos, a grandmother, 65-year-old Ramata Bola Adeyemo was on Friday, December 6, arrested by NDLEA operatives at 62 Odunfa street, Lagos Island, where 20.6 litres of codeine-based syrup were recovered from her.

Also arrested in Lagos was Alhaji Lawan Manga, who was picked at Ogundana Street, Ikeja on Thursday December 5, leading to the recovery of 4.7kg cannabis and 1.3kg tramadol.

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