The National Law Drug Enforcement Agency has disclosed that it intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, on New Year day.
This was made known in a video posted on X, formerly Twitter handle by Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
He noted that the arrest was made possible after a weeklong intelligence conducted by the operatives of the NDLEA.
Babafemi disclosed that a 38-year-old man identified as Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle, who receives and distributes he dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos State was arrested on Saturday 6th January.
He said, “This video shows how NDLEA officers uncovered a consignment of Colos concealed in boxing kits on New Year Day at MMIA. A gram seized is a gram less what’s available on our streets and communities.
In a statement, the NDLEA Spokesperson said, “Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on New Year day, Monday 1st January 2024 intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.
“A weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday 6th January following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos state. The consignment arrived in the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on an Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.
“According to Saheed, he delivers such consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. The latest shipment has a total weight of 1.80 kilograms.
In the same vein, the anti-narcotic agency said, ” A 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman came top on the list of twelve (12) other suspects arrested by NDLEA operatives in new year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states.”
Babafemi said Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday 3rd January by NDLEA officers on patrol along Zaria Kano expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady handbag.
She was said to be on her way to deliver the ammunition to an identified bandit in Kakumi village, Katsina state “when she was nabbed after which she was transferred to the Kaduna state command of the Nigeria Police Force for further investigation.
“The military authorities at the Bonny camp cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday 2nd January transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37 and 63 jumbo bags of Ghana Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos state command of NDLEA.
“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by NDLEA officers on 12th December 2023 close to the gate of the military cantonment in Bonny Camp, Victoria Island. Some armed escorts however resorted to sporadic shooting to obstruct the operation, a development which attracted soldiers from the cantonment, who eventually intervened and took custody of the consignment and suspect before transferring them to the Agency.”
