Two suspects behind drug shipments in Lagos arrested
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested two drug kingpins behind the recent importation of two drug consignments from Canada concealed in vehicle containers at the Tincan seaport in Apapa, Lagos.
Spokesman of the Agency, Femi Babafemi, said yesterday in a statement that one of them, Gboyega Ayoola Elegbeji was arrested at his house in Lagos on Wednesday for importing a 40ft container containing 33 parcels of cannabis weighing16.5kg.
He said the second suspect, Sunday Joe Oyebola, (aka Otunba) was arrested on Thursday.
Babafemi said the second suspect is linked to the importation of a 40ft container MEDU4389887 containing four vehicles used to conceal 290 parcels weighing 145kg cannabis indica (Colorado) from Montreal, Canada.
The spokesman added that Oyebola attempted to bribe officers with N10million.
Babafemi also said a Brazilian returnee, Igwedum Uche Benson, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos with pellets of cocaine concealed in his private part.
According to the statement, Igwedum was nabbed at the Lagos airport on Monday 20th June upon his arrival on Ethiopian Airlines from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa.
Babafemi said preliminary investigations revealed the suspect had swallowed 50 wraps of cocaine before departing Brazil and excreted 48 pellets in Addis Ababa where he handed them over to another person.
Babafemi also said after three weeks of painstaking investigation and tracking, operatives of the MMIA command of NDLEA on Saturday night, 25th June arrested a drug kingpin, Onyekachi Chukwuma Macdonald behind attempts to export 40 parcels of Methamphetamine popularly called Mkpuru Mmiri locally to London, United Kingdom through the NAHCO export shed of the Lagos airport. (The Nation)
