…Arrests traditional chief priest, others in nationwide crackdown
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 20 wraps of cocaine weighing 330 grams from a cargo shipment bound for Australia.
The cocaine parcels were cleverly concealed around the body of face cream containers at a Lagos port.
According to the NDLEA, the cocaine was recovered from a cargo shipment at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
The agency also intercepted two containers at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex in Onne, Rivers State, yielding 338,200 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth over N1.1 billion in street value.
The NDLEA also arrested the traditional chief priest of the Igunuko shrine, Alpha beach Ajah Lekki, Bariu Aliu (alias Malo), after a three-month manhunt.
Aliu was wanted in connection with the recovery of 2,760kg of skunk at the shrine on October 25, 2024.
In Kano, a suspect, Habibu Ya’u, 23, was arrested during a raid on Gadar Tamburawa, Zaria road, where NDLEA officers seized 45 blocks of cannabis weighing 24.2kg and 40,800 pills of opioids, including tramadol.