A 60-year-old grandma, Mrs Eunice Egwehide and one Amuodu Egwehide, 40, have been arrested with 17kgs and 261.4kgs of skunk respectively, by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in Edo state.
Similarly, the agency has intercepted consignments of skunk concealed in tins of tomato paste and methamphetamine hidden in used clothes, meant for export to Dubai, the United Arab Emirates.
Disclosing this in a statement issued on Sunday in Abuja, the spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, said Egwehide was apprehended with the substance when NDLEA operatives raided his house on Thursday 7th September, 2023, in Iloje Okpuje, Owan West LGA, Edo State.
“While the skunk in tomato pastes consignment weighing 20.00 kilograms was intercepted on Friday 8th September at the SAHCO export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, the meth shipment with a gross weight of 1.60kg was seized at a courier company in Lagos”, he stated.
He added , “Another consignment of 556 grams of Canadian Loud sent from Canada to one Tunji Adebayo in Ikorodu, Lagos was also intercepted by NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms. Though Adebayo was not home when operatives visited his house at 52, Aina Atoloye Street, Ikorodu, he however directed his younger brother to sign for the package on his behalf. The brother was promptly arrested”.
Furthermore, the spokesman disclosed that NDLEA operatives have recovered no fewer than 399 pieces of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) from one Asana Oluwagbenga Leke, 39, along Mokwa-Jebba road on Thursday 7th September.
According to him, the suspect in his statement said the explosives were handed to him at a park in Ibadan to be delivered to someone in Kaduna State.
He disclosed that the suspect and exhibits have since been transferred to the military authorities in Niger State.
