DAILY TRUST
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) busted another Tramadol cartel in Lagos State, seizing millions of opioids pills and bottles worth over N5bn from their warehouse in Amuwo Odofin and arresting two of the kingpins.
This is even as anti-narcotics officers of the agency also uncovered and dismantled a clandestine skuchies laboratory in a remote part of Sagamu, Ogun State, where several equipment and various quantities of illicit substances used to mass produce the dangerous new psychoactive substance were recovered on Saturday, January 14, 2023.
Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who spoke in Abuja on Sunday, said the drug cartels took the first heat on January 10 from determined officers of the agency who intercepted an imported consignment of “Loud“, a strong variant of cannabis, weighing 4,878.72kgs along Awolowo road Ikoyi, Lagos.
According to him, after a near-fatal encounter with some suspected fake security agents escorting the drugs, the NDLEA operatives succeeded in recovering the consignment with a white truck marked BDG 548 XX conveying it…
