NDLEA busts UK colos pipeline, seizes 2.3 tonnes of drugs, real estate agent, 70-year-old woman, others arrested as traffickers hide opioids in bread, music speakers
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled multiple drug trafficking networks operating across eight states, intercepting consignments from the United Kingdom and recovering more than 2.3 tonnes of assorted illicit drugs, including synthetic cannabis, tramadol, pregabalin and cannabis
Arrest and charges
The operations, which also exposed the increasingly elaborate methods used by traffickers to move narcotics, resulted in the arrest of a real estate agent, a tour agent, a 70-year-old woman and several other suspects.
The spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday, said operatives intercepted two consignments of Colorado, also known as Colos, concealed in consolidated cargoes from the United Kingdom at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
He revealed that in the first seizure, 27 parcels of the synthetic cannabis weighing 32.2 kilogrammes were recovered from a large luggage.
A real estate agent, Abideen Salami, who arrived to collect the consignment using a secret collection code allegedly sent by his UK-based brother, was arrested last Wednesday.
He noted that a follow-up operation linked to a second UK shipment led to the arrest of Nurudeen Kadiri, 44, who was designated to receive another consignment of Colorado weighing 12.25 kilogrammes.
The suspect reportedly told investigators that his brother in the UK sent the drugs.
