The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) mentioned on Sunday that it has intercepted a complete of 52 vacationers’ cheques hid in kids’s books price $17.7 million.
The cheques, in line with an announcement issued by the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in Abuja, had been en path to Malaysia by way of Istanbul on a Turkish Airways flight.
Babafemi, nonetheless, mentioned that the cheques had been intercepted by NDLEA operatives on the export shed of the airport on July 4.
He mentioned that the interdiction operation which occurred at Lagos airport had a freight agent arrested in connection to the intercepted vacationers’ cheques.
“The vacationers cheques suspected to be counterfeit and the suspect will quickly be handed over to the {Economic} and {Financial} Crimes Fee (EFCC) for additional investigation,” he mentioned.
He mentioned NDLEA officers on the Seme border on July 5 recovered 718 huge balls of skunk weighing 359 kg from a retailer within the Baba – Pupa space of the border group.
Operatives on patrol alongside the Okene-Lokoja freeway intercepted 10,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg and co-codamol in addition to 1.050kg Colorado, an artificial pressure of hashish.
This, he mentioned, led to the arrest of homeowners of the way-billed drug consignments at Jabi Park in Abuja throughout a follow-up operation.
Babafemi mentioned in one other improvement in Osun, two suspects had been arrested within the Ajegunle space of Osogbo on July 3 with 13,901 tablets and ampoules of various opioids recovered from them.
He mentioned that one other suspect was nabbed at a patent drugs store at Arubidi Avenue, Ile-Ife, with 48,205 tablets of opioids.
“A raid of a vulcaniser workshop at Akindeko junction, Alekuwodo space of Osogbo on Tuesday, July 1 led to the arrest of three suspects.
“They had been arrested with 1,250 ampoules of pentazocine injection, 850 tablets of tramadol, and three bottles of codeine-based syrup.”
The spokesman mentioned that the Warfare In opposition to Drug Abuse, (WADA), social advocacy actions by NDLEA instructions equally continued throughout the nation up to now week.
“A few of them embrace: the WADA sensitisation lecture delivered to college students and employees of Queen of Angel Secondary School, Mgbidi, Awgu, Enugu state, Divine Goal School, Eyita, Ikorodu, Lagos.
“Others are Al-Furqan School, Kankia, Katsina, and residents of Gomari Binta Suga group, Maiduguri, Borno state, amongst others.”
Earlier, NDLEA introduced it had destroyed 24,175 kilograms of skunk on 9.67 hectares of hashish farmland at Ikaka, Oke-Ila forest, Osun.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi mentioned this in an announcement on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi mentioned that NDLEA operatives had raided the world the place seven suspects had been arrested on July 3.
He mentioned NDLEA operatives on patrol alongside the Abuja-Kaduna expressway recovered 11,000 tablets of tramadol 225mg from a suspect, whereas their counterparts in Sokoto arrested a 62-year-old in reference to the seizure of 4,800 tablets of tramadol 225mg.
