The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted N3.3billion worth of shipments of meth and “loud”, a strong synthetic strain of cannabis.
This is contained in a statement issued by the Director of Media and Advocacy in the agency, Mr Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said that the drugs which were concealed in automobile spare parts imported from Canada were seized at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The seizure, he said, followed months of intelligence-driven tracking of the cargoes across three continents by the NDLEA operatives.
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Babafemi said that for the first time in the history of NDLEA’s anti-narcotic operations, the two consignments of methamphetamine were weighing 83.301 kilograms.
He said that they were recovered on Thursday and Friday, from separate containers bearing vehicles and spare parts.
The NDLEA image maker added that the drugs which came in from Canada, were headed to a warehouse in the Ladipo automobile parts market in Mushin area of Lagos.
“One of the containers going to Ladipo market through the Sifax bonded terminal was examined on Thursday.
“Not less than 5.001kg methamphetamine were hidden in a bag wrapped in bed sheet that came in a Toyota Camry car, was recovered while a businessman, Isaac Onwumere linked with the consignment was promptly arrested.
“The other container bearing automobile spare parts checked on Friday, was found to contain 1, 735 parcels of Loud packed in 44 jumbo bags with a total weight of 867.5kg.”
