Substance suspected to be Canadian Loud weighing 4,143.5 Kilogrammes wirth ₦10.3 billiin where interceots by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA at the Apapa seaport in Lagos. The substance where contained in 8,287 nylon bags.
This was contained in statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy of the agency,, Mr Femi Babafemi on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said the drugs were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Customs personnel and other security agencies on July 10.
He said the discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of NDLEA.
According to him, this was in close collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the agency, saying the NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI) foiled an attempt by a drug trafficker to export a 2.5-Kilogramme of substance suspected to be skunk, a strain of cannabis.
”The drugs were concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos,” he said.
He added that commands and formations of the agency across the country have continued their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation activities in schools, worship centres, work places and communities.
Babafemi quoted the NDLEA chairman, retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa as commending the officers and men of DOGI and Apapa commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa noted their drug supply reduction efforts and charged them and their compatriots across the country not to relent.
