By Nicholas Kalu,The Nation
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Agency intercepts 85,000 Tramadol pills in Lagos
Two drug kingpins, Victor Nwosa and Felix Chika Obiegbu, have been arrested by operatives of a Special Operations Unit (SOU) of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) after consignments of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine being prepared for export to Europe and beyond were recovered from their Lagos homes following weeks of intelligence and surveillance on their criminal networks.
Director, Media and Advocacy NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, in a statement said while 64-year-old Nwosa parades himself as a successful textile merchant, 49-year-old Obiegbu is known to many as a businessman who is into wine distribution.
The NDLEA Spokesman said, however, that beneath their outward appearance is their hidden illicit drug business unearthed by NDLEA operatives after months of intelligence gathering on the two syndicates led by them.
Babafemi said at the time they were preparing their consignments for export, NDLEA-SOU operatives who had for months put them under surveillance, swooped on them in various parts of Lagos.
According to the statement, Nwosa was arrested on September 17, this year at his 16 Femi Kila Street, Okota home where 4.33 kilograms of heroin and 448 grams of cocaine were recovered during a search of his house.
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Babafemi added that Obiegbu was arrested on September 11at his 5 Shada Shonefun Street, Aguda, Surulere home where during a search, 2.902 kilograms of methamphetamine were uncovered and seized.
He said attempts by suspected suppliers of illicit drugs to terrorists and bandits in Borno and Yobe to move illicit drugs concealed in the engine compartment of a Mercedes Benz jeep and a lady’s travelling bag were also thwarted by NDLEA operatives on stop and search operations in the two states.
Babafemi said in Borno, following weeks of intelligence, NDLEA officers last Friday arrested Baba Kaka Ibrahim, 26, at Njimtilo village while driving a Mercedes Benz GLK marked JRE 987 AE towards Damaturu Road.
He said a search of the vehicle led to the recovery of 39, 380 pills of tramadol 225mg and exol-5 stuffed in the engine compartment of the jeep.
Babafemi said the following day in Yobe State, NDLEA operatives intercepted a lady Halima Adamu along Damaturu-Maiduguri road, where 39 parcels of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 1.4kg were found concealed inside the casing of her travelling bag.
He said a swift follow up led to the arrest of another lady linked to the consignment, Habiba Muhammad, at her Baga Road, Maiduguri home.
