Lagos: Andy BABATUNDE
Published, Sunday, November 7, 2021
NIGERIAN DRUG LAW ENFORCEMENT AGENCY (NDLEA) has arrested several drug traffickers including the notorious drug dealer, Okoli Collins Ikenna, who's said to mastermind the recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to London in the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA
Also, in the net of NDLEA are some Lagos based courier companies which were involved in the illicit drugs.
The notorious hard drug kingpin, who is on court bail following his arrest in November 2020 and subsequent arraignment before a Lagos Federal High Court for attempting to export 15.700kgs of Methamphetamine to Australia was fingered in series of investigations into recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to the UK, and led to his arrest on Tuesday, 2nd November when he was caught with 78 parcels of Cannabis concealed in black soap packs labelled as Dudu Osun, with a total weight of 12.250 kilograms heading to United Kingdom.
Okoli Collins Ikenna, according to NDLEA investigation, was implicated in the attempt to export 7.350kgs of Cannabis to the UK on Thursday, October 21, a consignment that was intercepted at NAHCO export shed of the MMIA.
In another separate investigation by operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, of the Agency, attached to courier companies have equally traced two other attempts to export 47.7kgs of cannabis to the UK through courier firms to Okoli after his agents were arrested in the course of investigation and named him as the owner of the consignments.
In the same vein, NDLEA has equally scuttled the desperate moves of drug traffickers to export over two kilograms of Cocaine, Methamphetamine and Cannabis hidden inside containers of body cream, tea bags, vehicle oil and air filters to London, Saudi Arabia, United Arab Emirate and New Zealand through two major courier companies.
In Kano, a controlled delivery of an illicit consignment on Friday 5th November led to the arrest of two suspects, Ibrahim Sulaiman and Muhammad Sani Alhassan with 23kgs of Diazepam tablets, 2kgs of Codeine Syrup and 32kgs of Exol 5 tablets, bringing the total weight to 57kgs.
Earlier on Wednesday 3rd November, operatives of the Kano command of the NDLEA arrested one Mizambilu Tijjani with 64kgs of Cannabis Sativa, and Victor Nsodikwa Chu-chu, with 34 cartons of Pentazocine injection and one carton of Diazepam injection in Sabongari area of the city.
In Kogi state, NDLEA operatives also seized a consignment containing 28.251kgs of Exol- 5; 6.6kgs of Barcadin Codeine Syrup; over 38.532kgs of Tramadol, bringing the total drugs seized to 73.808kgs.
In another related development, operatives of the Osun State Command have seized 130.518kgs of cannabis and 18grams of Cocaine in Modakeke area of Ile-Ife.
Impressed by the outcome of investigations that led to the dismantling of the drug syndicate led by Okoli in Lagos, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers and men of the MMIA Command, DOGI and their counterparts in Kano, Kogi and Osun for sustaining the heat on the cartels across the country.
Impressed by the outcome of investigations that led to the dismantling of the drug syndicate led by Okoli in Lagos, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers and men of the MMIA Command, DOGI and their counterparts in Kano, Kogi and Osun for sustaining the heat on the cartels across the country.
He urged them and their compatriots in other commands to intensify the offensive actions against all merchants of death in Nigeria.
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