At Eleko Road in the Lekki neighbourhood of Lagos, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency recovered 8,852 kilogrammes of Canadian loud, an imported synthetic variety of cannabis.
This was revealed in a statement released on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, the director of media and advocacy at NDLEA.
He said that the seizure was accomplished during a 30-minute gunfight between agency agents and the armed individuals guarding the illegal substances.
He claims that on Thursday, the agency set up an ambush for the traffickers transferring the consignment piled into two trucks based on intelligence.
Babafemi said, “When the suspects who were escorted by armed men were flagged down, rather than stop, they escaped and abandoned the drugs. But they were later overpowered by the operatives in an exchange of gunfire that lasted 30 minutes.
“While one of the trucks painted red has 149 jumbo bags weighing 6,548kg, the second one with blue colour has 53 big bags with a weight of 2,304kg, bringing the total number of bags to 202 and gross weight of both to 8,852 kilograms. Meanwhile, operatives are already on the trail of the drug lord who shipped the illicit consignment into the country.”
He added that on the same day, NDLEA operatives intercepted a Toyota Sienna vehicle driven by one Mukaila Idowu, conveying 88.3kg skunk at Otedola bridge, while another suspect, Joseph Friday, was arrested on Saturday at lyana Ira in Lagos with 58.7kg cannabis sativa concealed inside his Toyota Camry car marked FST 587FH.
