NDLEA Seizes Illicit Drugs in Lagos, Others, Arrests Church Officials

The Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA on Sunday revealed it has seized about 4,560 kilogrammes of skunk in an interdiction operation in Lagos State, Adamawa, and Osun and arrested four members of a drug syndicate including two church officials; female staff of a courier company, and another lady, involved in trafficking lethal opioid, fentanyl in Delta state.

The drug agency revealed this in a statement signed and issued out by its Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, which was shared on its Facebook handle on Sunday.

The statement reads in part,

“No fewer than 4,560 kilogrammes of skunk have been seized in interdiction operations in Lagos, Adamawa, and Osun by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, who also raided a Skucchies factory in Ogun and arrested four members of a drug syndicate including two church officials; female staff of a courier company and another lady, involved in trafficking lethal opioid, fentanyl in Delta.

“The bust of the fentanyl cartel operating from Warri, Delta state is coming barely a month after two members of another syndicate: Odoh Collins Oguejiofor and Oliver Chigozie Uzoma were arrested at Ogbogwu market, Onitsha Head Bridge, Onitsha South LGA, Anambra State following months of intelligence-led investigation of the syndicates behind the dangerous drug, which is 100 times more potent than heroin and currently responsible for over 70% overdose deaths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the United States.”