The breakthrough followed the order for sustained surveillance on some targets at Satellite town and Alaba Rago areas of Lagos ahead of Christmas by the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA,
A statement issued on Sunday by the Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said the Satellite town target was eventually raided on Thursday, December 23 when a drug kingpin, Ezekiel Ibe, was arrested and over five tons of high milligrams Tramadol were recovered from his warehouse.
A breakdown of the seized drug shows 7,991,600 Tramadol tablets and 390,000 capsules of the same weighing 5,468.894 kilograms. Meanwhile, in another raid on Monday, December 20, following tasking surveillance in a notorious neighbourhood at Alaba Rago, Alaba area of Lagos, one Surajo Mohammed was arrested with 941.14kg cannabis while 56,782 bottles of codeine were seized from the store of another drug lord still at large.
The NDLEA operatives have also arrested a 22-year-old Amaka Ogonachukwu for attempting to smuggle wraps of cocaine concealed in cooked white rice for her boyfriend, Monday Imagbebenikaro, 40, in the custody of the Edo State command of NDLEA. He was arrested earlier along Airport Road, Benin City, Oredo LGA, for dealing in crack cocaine, Cannabis Sativa and Danabel .
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