A shipment of synthetic cannabis, known as Loud, was seized by National Drug Law Enforcement Agency agents at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos. The shipment was wrapped in a duvet and was headed for export to the United Kingdom.
The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday that the duvet contained six packages of the psychoactive material, totaling 3.50 kilos in gross weight.
He said, Austin Balogun, who is the main agent who hired Sunday Adakole, claimed he was paid N700,000 to cargo the consignment to the UK but spent a fraction of the money on export handling charges and the bulk to pay for an apartment.
In a different operation, Babafemi stated that two suspects, Joseph Adewale and Biodun Adelakun, were taken into custody when NDLEA agents stormed their hiding place in Igbo Olumo, in the Ikorodu neighborhood of Lagos.
Seven liters of skuchies, a novel psychoactive drug made from black currant, cannabis, and opiates, were found, according to Babafemi.
“Other exhibits seized from the duo include: three locally made double-barrelled rifles; one locally made double-barrelled pistol; one English-made pistol; one locally made single-barrelled rifle; three cartridges and one empty 9mm cartridge as well as an iron-head axe.
“Another raid in Lagos on Sunday, January 19, led to the seizure of 47kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, and 25.46kg Nitrous Oxide popularly known as laughing gas at the notorious Akala area of Mushin,” Babafemi added.
A 26-year-old suspect named Adepoju Taiwo was apprehended by NDLEA officers on Thursday, January 23, at Iworoko Road, Ilokun, Ado-Ekiti, the state capital, Babafemi said, with 1.950 kg of Canadian Loud. On Monday, January 20, operatives apprehended Auwal Sani at Bode Saadu in the Moro Local Government Area of Kwara State. From him, 50,000 tramadol 225 mg pills weighing 36.56 kg were found.
“A Nigerien, Abubakar Lami, 45, with two others: Abba Sani, 35, and Auwal Aliyu, 32, were arrested by the NDLEA operatives at Gadar Tamburawa, Kano, while 13.1kg skunk and 125 litres of ‘suck and die’, a new psychoactive substance were recovered from them. In Gefen Kasa, Dawakin Kudu council area of Kano State, a cannabis plantation was located and destroyed by a team of the NDLEA officers who arrested a suspect, Sabo Ali Muhammad, 45, linked to the farm,” the statement added.