The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a 41-year-old man, Ndubuisi Udatu, also known as Richard, with hard drugs hidden inside two big music speakers.
According to a statement on Sunday by NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, Udatu was caught on Monday, April 7, at Namtari, along the Ngurore-Yola Road in Adamawa State. He was inside a commercial bus when NDLEA officers stopped and searched him at a checkpoint.
Inside his luggage, they found two new loudspeakers stuffed with four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.7 kilograms. Officers also recovered N22,300 in cash.
Babafemi said, “Ndubuisi confessed that he had returned to Nigeria after serving a jail term in Malaysia for drug trafficking and was planning to continue his illegal drug business in Yola, Mubi, and Cameroon.”
In another case, NDLEA officers working with Customs at the Mfum border in Cross River State arrested 35-year-old Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, a suspected drug trafficker. He was caught with 8,740 ampoules of different strong painkillers and opioids, weighing 395kg.
The seized drugs included:
- 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection
- 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate
- 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate
- 2,160 ampoules of pethidine
- 330 ampoules of midazolam
In Kano, on Friday, April 11, NDLEA officers arrested 27-year-old Aliyu Ibrahim at the Bachirawa area with 20 ATM cards and 25,600 tablets of tramadol.
Also, in Abuja, a follow-up operation led to the arrest of 48-year-old Gambo Lawan at Wazobia Motor Park in Gwagwalada.
This came after officers earlier found a bag with 8,960 tramadol pills during a routine check along the expressway.
In another operation in Niger State, NDLEA recovered 124 kilograms of skunk, a type of cannabis, on the same Friday.
The drugs were hidden in 11 big bags in the boot of a Lexus car with plate number KTU 54 CU. The driver, Ademiluyi Adedapo Collins, 58, was arrested along the Mokwa-Jebba road.
The NDLEA says it will continue to crack down on drug traffickers across the country.
