Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA have seized 126 parcels of a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 63 kilograms, concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
A similar attempt by a freight agent to export 900 grams of the same substance, hidden inside the walls of a travelling bag containing food items, to Kenya was thwarted by NDLEA officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos on Saturday.
The spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi made the revelations today in a statement..
Similarly, men of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation, attached to courier firms also on Thursday, April 27, intercepted 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to the United Arab Emirate.
Babafemi further noted that in Benue, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based Syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer about two kilometres away from NDLEA checkpoint along Enugu – Otukpo road on Wednesday, April 26.
In Adamawa state, NDLEA operatives on Saturday, April 29, raided a clandestine factory in Mubi, where a new psychoactive substance was being produced in large quantitties and distributed to Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic