As part of efforts to thwart the operations of drugs peddlers and to also demobilise all gangs involved in production of crystal methamphetamine popularly known as Mkpuru mmiri , the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Monday 29th August raided a suspected clandestine laboratory at Opic estate, Agbara, Lagos.
The agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi , confirming the arrest said that clues from the property led operatives to another in the vicinity where one Peter James was apprehended with some quantity of the substance.
He said that follow up operation within the estate also led to the arrest of a meth dealer, Mathew Bobby Imonitie, who was caught with 4.033kilograms of the illicit substance.
Equally, a raid at a rented apartment in Raji Rasaki First estate in Festac town, Lagos on Saturday 27th August led to the seizure of 412,780 tablets of Tramadol and the arrest of one of the suspects involved, Kingsley Duru.
Babafemi stated that a 53-year-old physically challenged man, Ehiarimwiam Osaromo Emmanuel, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the departure hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos for drug trafficking.
He was arrested on Sunday 28th August on his way to Italy, via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight. He was found to have concealed five thousand (5,000) tablets of Tramadol 225mg in his luggage.
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