Nigeria Customs, Navy intercept drug traffickers, recovers 26 bags of cannabis

Operatives of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) attached to the Western Marine Command have engaged suspected drug traffickers in a shootout in Badagry, Lagos.

At the end of the operation which lasted for hours, several of the fleeing traffickers sustained varying degrees of injury.

Twenty-six bags of weeds suspected to be Indian hemp being smuggled into the country from Ghana were recovered. 

The custom operatives were able to intercept the items after a tip-off while they were on patrol at Tanfi Island in Badagry. 

 

NDLEA arrests suspect with N75m worth of cocaine

The Cross River State Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested a suspect, Kelechi Amaka, with 6.3kg of cocaine valued at N75m.

Amaka, an Imo State indegene based in Cameroon, was arrested at the Nigerian Inland Waterways Authority Jetty in Calabar on her way from Cameroon.

Parading the suspect at the office of the NDLEA in Calabar, the state Commander of the agency, Mr. Kayode Adeniyi, said the drugs were concealed in six factory sealed ladies hand bags and kept in a leather box.

The NDLEA boss added that, attempts to smuggle the drug into Nigeria failed as the suspect was intercepted by NDLEA officers on operation at the NIWA Jetty.