Officials from the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have verified the seizure of two imported shipments containing a particular type of cannabis weighing 5,344.1 kilograms.
The interceptions occurred along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at Alfa Beach in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
According to a statement released by Femi Babafemi, the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA, and published on the agency’s official Facebook page, the driver of the truck transporting the cannabis managed to escape arrest despite being pursued by a security Hilux van.
The statement in part said, “Based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2,434.1 kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday, June 19th.
The truck driver, however, jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security Hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilised the truck conveying the drug exhibits.
“In the same vein, officers of the Marine Command of the Agency the following day, Tuesday 20th, also acting on intelligence, intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910kg around Alfa Beach upon arrival from Ghana. Two Ghanaians: Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, found with the consignments were promptly arrested.”
