Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted no fewer than 66 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, packaged as green tea at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
The seizure made on Thursday, 5th June, 2025, was based on credible intelligence received ahead of the arrival of the consignment at the cargo wing of the airport on 11th May.
Spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, said that the NDLEA had watch-listed the shipment, and sustained surveillance around it for over three weeks before inviting other stakeholders for a joint examination last Thursday.
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“The Loud consignment weighing 62.20kgs was concealed inside wraps of green tea that came from Thailand via UAE on an Emirate Airlines flight,” Babafemi said.
In another operation in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Monday, 2nd June, intercepted a consignment of 1,665kgs skunk, a strain of cannabis, along Lekki-Ajah expressway.
Two suspects: Gidado Abdulrasaq Ayinde and Obanla Oluwafemi were promptly arrested in connection with the seizure.
In Kaduna State, operatives of the state command of NDLEA on patrol along Abuja -Kaduna expressway on Tuesday 3rd June arrested 29-year-old Goodluck Nnaemeka with 612 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 2,970 pills of flunitrazepam; while same day, a 52-year-old wanted drug dealer Kabiru Musa (a.k.a KB) was arrested at Kurmin Mash with a total of 25.7kgs skunk earlier recovered from his base.
Meanwhile, a total of 9kgs Loud was recovered from the spare tyre compartment of an Audi station wagon car marked AAA 975 XU driven by Atari Israel, 45, along Auchi road, Edo State, even as two young ladies: Favour Joy and Joy Igwe were on Tuesday 3rd June nabbed at Ikpoba hill area of Benin city. Recovered from them include: 106.57kgs skunk; 1kg Loud; 800grams Colorado and 302grams of methamphetamine.
Commending the officers and men of MMIA, Lagos, Kaduna, and Edo Commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) also praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
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