NDLEA Intercept Large Quantity Of Loud Across Nigeria

Two consignments of Loud, a potent strain of cannabis imported from overseas and weighing a combined 5,344.1 kilos, were intercepted by NDLEA agents along the Epe-Lekki highway and at Alfa Beach in the Lekki neighbourhood of Lagos state.

According to a statement made by the anti-drug agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, NDLEA agents ambushed a white truck carrying 50 jumbo bags of the illegal substance, each weighing 2,434.1kg, along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday, June 19. However, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilized the truck transporting the drug exhibits, the truck driver leapt off and fled in a security Hilux van escorting the truck.

A boat carrying the same imported drug, weighing 2,910kg, was intercepted the next day, Tuesday the 20th, around Alfa Beach by agents of the Agency’s Marine Command acting on intelligence. When two Ghanaians, Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, were discovered with the shipments, and they were swiftly detained.

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Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were detained on Sunday, June 18 along the Abuja expressway in Suleja with 31 jumbo bags of skunk totalling 517kg, while Amina Alilu, 30, was detained on Wednesday, June 21 at Ogbogodo village in the Dekina LGA of Kogi state with 171kg of the drug.

On June 22, NDLEA agents detained Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, who was thought to be a fake female security agent, along with 30 kg of cannabis in Ilorin, Kwara State. On June 24, NDLEA agents detained Segun Olajide, 42, in Oyo State, along with 49.2 kg of the same substance in Oyo town.

In the early hours of Monday, June 19, agents from Edo state stormed the Ekudo forest in the Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed marijuana weighing 67kg and detained six suspects: Onyeka Onyedinma, Monday Onyedi, Alex Eboh, Edosa Imariagbe, Godbless Tunde, and Godstime Osarobo.

Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), Chairman/Chief Executive of the Agency, charged them and their compatriots across other formations to remain committed to the corporate goal of ridding Nigeria of the menace of substance abuse and illicit drug trafficking while praising the officers and men of the Lagos, Kogi, Niger, Kwara, Oyo, Edo, and Marine Commands for preventing over five tons of illicit substances from entering the country in the past week.