Engineer Detained Over Illicit Drugs Concealed In Pressure Machines
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Egwu Phillip Inya who claims to be a building engineer, while attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.
According to Femi Babafemi, NDLEA spokesperson, in a statement issued on Sunday, the 42-year-old Egwu was arrested on Monday, 2nd December 202,4, at Okeyson Motor Park Enugu, when he showed up to collect three units of pressure machines inside which were hidden parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.
He said that the consignments had arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos import shed on 29th November 2024. “Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport where it was to be collected by the consignee.
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“The importer, however, changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute. As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow-up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments,” Babafemi said.
In their other arrests, NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of Friday, 6th December, recovered over 511,000 pills of tramadol from a Siena vehicle at Hildi, Askira Uba way in Adamawa state.
Babafemi stated that the occupants of the vehicle had made a detour on sighting the NDLEA team and, after a distance, abandoned the vehicle with the consignments after noticing the operatives were on their trail.
In Ekiti state, two suspects: Olanrewaju Alale, 48, and Babatunde Kayode Ijadahun, 55, were arrested along Ise- Emure road in a J5 bus marked EPE 958 XJ while transporting 108 jumbo bags of cannabis weighing 1, 323 kilograms to Owo, Ondo state from where they claimed the consignment will be moved to the North for distribution.
Another suspect, Adekunle Yusuf, 33, was nabbed by NDLEA operatives with 704 kilograms of the same psychoactive substance, concealed in white sacks on Friday 6th December at Idere road, Igboora, Oyo state.
In Lagos, a grandmother, 65-year-old Ramata Bola Adeyemo, was on Friday, 6th December, by NDLEA operatives at 62 Odunfa Street, Lagos Island, where 20.6 litres of codeine-based syrup was recovered from her.
Also arrested in Lagos was Alhaji Lawan Manga, who was picked up at Ogundana Street, Ikeja, on Thursday, 5th December, while 4.7kg cannabis and 1.3kg tramadol were recovered from him.
