Sophia Michaels
On Saturday, April 25, NDLEA operatives arrested a freight agent, Mordi Chukwuemeka Samuel, attempting to export 900 grams of the Loud hidden inside a travelling bag containing food items to Kenya.
The suspect was thwarted by operatives at the SAHCO export shed of Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos on April 29.
In Benue, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer near NDLEA checkpoint along Enugu – Otukpo road.
In Ondo, seven bags of cannabis with a gross weight of 74.5kg were recovered when operatives raided an uncompleted building located in a bush in Ala town, Akure.
Similarly, 60kg of the same substance, hidden among footwears in two sacks, was recovered along Ibadan – Oyo road from one Aminu Mohammed waiting to board a vehicle to Kebbi.
In Adamawa, NDLEA agents raided a clandestine factory in Mubi, where Akuskura was being produced in large quantity.
The new psychoactive substance was to be exported to neighbouring countries, Chad, Cameroon and Niger Republic.
