Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos, on New Year’s Day, intercepted a consignment of colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.

The spokesperson for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, revealed that a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday, January 6 following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Olakunle who distributed the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos State.

Babafemi added, “The consignment had arrived in the country on Monday, January 1 via Cairo on an Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits. According to Olakunle, 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.

“Meanwhile, a 28-year-old female supplier of ammunition to bandits, Bilkisu Suleman, came top on the list of 12 other suspects arrested by the NDLEA operatives in the New Year interdiction operations in Kaduna, Lagos, Niger, Kogi, Kano, Borno, and Osun states. Bilkisu was arrested on Wednesday, January 3 by the NDLEA officers on patrol along the Zaria–Kano Expressway in possession of 249 rounds of 7.62 mm live ammunition concealed in a black nylon bag kept in her lady’s handbag.

“She was 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.”

He further revealed that the military authorities at the Bonny Camp Cantonment in Lagos on Tuesday, January 2, transferred a suspect, Francis Suru, 37, and 63 jumbo bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis, weighing 2,104.2 kilograms and a truck to the Lagos State Command of the NDLEA.

“The suspect and the drug exhibits were earlier intercepted by the NDLEA officers on December 12, 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,” Babafemi noted.

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