The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA says it has arrested two wanted drug barons and seized illicit drugs and assets worth billions of naira after weeks of intelligence-led operations across and outside the country.
Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters Abuja, Femi Babafemi, who made this known in a statement in Abuja today, said the arrest of the wanted drug lords came on the heels of the interception of consignments of cocaine and heroin buried in the bellies of two traffickers heading to Paris, France and Doha, Qatar by NDLEA officers at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
Babafemi said operatives at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja Lagos on Tuesday 10th October succeeded in taking one of the suspects into custody as he was involved in the illicit trade of several narcotics including Cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Ephedrine between Nigeria, Brazil, Ghana, South Africa, Mozambique, and Europe.
Babafemi said their arrest followed weeks of intelligence gathering about the activities of the criminal network.
He said NDLEA operatives on patrol along Okene -Lokoja-Abuja expressway on Tuesday 10th October intercepted a commercial bus coming from Lagos to Kano.
According to him, a search of the bus led to the seizure of 4.8million dollars and Fifty-Seven Million Céfa, suspected to be counterfeits
