Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu (aka Richard) with four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.700kilograms concealed in two giant music speakers.
According to NDLEA, the suspect was heading for the distribution in Yola and Mubi, Adamawa state, and across the border into Cameroon, before he was interdicted.
The Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday noted that Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at an NDLEA checkpoint at Namtari along Ngurore -Yola road, Adamawa.
“He was found with two new music speakers used to conceal four packages of methamphetamine and a monetary exhibit of N22,300.
“In his statement, he claimed he returned to Nigeria to continue his illicit drug trade after serving out his jail term in Malaysia where he had been arrested, convicted and sent to prison for drug trafficking offences,” NDLEA stated.
Similarly, in another interdiction exercise, NDLEA officers in a joint border operation with Customs personnel at the Nigeria/Cameroon border, Mfum, Cross River state arrested a trans-border drug trafficker, 35-year-old Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids, weighing 395kg.
They include: 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.
The Chairman and Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) while commending the agency tasked them and their compatriots nationwide not to relent efforts.
He further urged them to continue to raise the bar against drug cartels with an equal measure of drug demand reduction efforts.
