The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested Charles Chinedu Ezeh, a suspected drug lord and two others over a large consignment of methamphetamine intercepted at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos.

Two other persons arrested were identified as a freight agent, Nwobodo Chidiebere and a female suspect, Chioma Lucy Akuta.

This was made known in a statement issued by Femi Babafemi, the agency’s director of media and advocacy, on Sunday, in Abuja.

Babafemi noted that the consignment was concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom.

According to the statement, the illicit drug consignment weighing 30.10kg with a street value of N567 million was detected and seized by NDLEA operatives at the airport on Tuesday, May 16.

The statement reads in part, "Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a large consignment of methamphetamine concealed in powdered custard containers as part of a consolidated cargo going to London, United Kingdom at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

"The illicit drug consignment weighing 30.10 kilograms with a street value of N567 million was detected and seized by NDLEA operatives at the airport on Tuesday 16th May.

"This was swiftly followed by a series of follow-up operations that led to the arrest of a freight agent, Nwobodo Chidiebere; a female suspect, Chioma Lucy Akuta and ultimately the drug lord behind the shipment, Charles Chinedu Ezeh, who was arrested at Sotel Suites, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos on Thursday, 18th May.

"Ezeh claims he’s a businessman and deals in article in Onitsha, Anambra State but investigations reveal he lived with his wife and children in London until 10th December 2022 when he fled to Nigeria after his involvement in a drug-related offence in the UK.

"Though he claimed to have been living in hotels since his return to Nigeria last December, operatives were, however, able to locate his mansion at No. 1 Hawawu Abikan Street, Lekki, on Friday, 19th May, where a search was conducted and his travel and property documents among others were recovered.

"Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives in Adamawa on Monday 15th May arrested a 32-year-old notorious drug dealer, Prince Ikechukwu Uzoma, in Mubi area of the state with 1kg of skunk. Ikechukwu had twice been arrested in the past, and convicted for the same offence.

"He was in 2017 sentenced to six months imprisonment and in 2019 he was again sent to two years in jail.

“In the same vein, a trans-border trafficker, Faisal Mohammed, 27, was on Wednesday 17th May arrested in Mubi following the interception of a truck from Onitsha, Anambra State, where a total of 2,376 sachets of tramadol comprising 23,760 pills were found concealed in three blue rubber Jerrycans which were hidden underneath the body part of the trailer. The suspect admitted the opioid was to be taken to Cameroon.

"Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) has commended the officers and men of MMIA command for their professionalism and speed with which they were able to track and arrest another drug kingpin, Ezeh Chinedu Charles. He charged them and their colleagues in Adamawa, Oyo, Kaduna, Edo, Kwara, Jigawa, Ondo and Kano as well as those in other commands and formations across the country not to rest on their oars," the statement added.

This is serious
We pray that the incoming administration fight drug trafficking to a stand still.
Nigeria is fast becoming the headquarter of drug trafficking

Ok

our brother from the east has done it again

why alway them?

Na dem..

Ipob on the beat

Tinubu and his people don't ever listen. Tueh!

This tribe hate drug yet they are the number one drug peddler in Africa and 80% of their billionaires are info drugs


Who cursed them 😀

You will see them buying big mansions in Lekki not knowing it's the proceeds of their illicit drug deals.