*Uncovers UK-bound Cocaine In Cream Containers, Meth In Water Heater
OPERATIVES of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested the owner of a night club in Lagos, Pretty Mike, in a raid on the facility during a drug party.
NDLEA operatives, on Sunday, October 26, raided Proxy Night Club, at 7, Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos, where a drug party was going on.
Over 100 suspects, including the owner of the club, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, alias Pretty Mike, were arrested and taken into custody for screening.
Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from suspects at the party and the club’s store.
The raid followed intelligence about the drug party. NDLEA operatives, who were embedded in the party, between 11pm on Saturday, October 25, however disrupted the gathering at 3am on Sunday, October 26, based on Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
In a related development, the agency has uncovered Mosotho with ice in coffee tea pack at Enugu airport and arrested a 75-year-old grandfather in Abia State and a female distributor of Loud in Lekki, Ikoyi, Victoria Island and environs in Lagos State.
A total of 70 parcels of cocaine factory packed in walls of cocoa butter formula body cream containers bound for London, the United Kingdom (UK) was also uncovered at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, with three suspects arrested in series of follow-up operations across Lagos State.
The cocaine consignments, weighing 3.60 kilogrammes, were discovered on October 14, during examination of cargoes packaged as personal effects going to London on an Air Peace flight.
A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the consignment for airfreight was promptly arrested, while investigations stretching into two weeks led to the arrest of two principal suspects linked to the attempt to export the concealed Class A drug to the UK.
The agency’s spokesman, Femi babafemi, in a statement, said NDLEA, in a follow up operation on October 18, a female healthcare worker, Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, was arrested, following which the chief executive officer of Mutiu Adebiyi & Co, a travel agency, Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, was arrested at his 23 Ladoke Akintola Street, Ikeja, Lagos office on Monday, October 20.
In a another development, attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to export 103.59 grammes of methamphetamine, concealed in a diabeta herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian airlines flight from the Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu, on Wednesday, October 22, was forestall by NDLEA officers who arrested him and recovered the illicit drug.
Over 21,950 capsules of Tramadol 250mg, concealed inside a 100-litre water heater, were recovered from a suspect, Umar Abubakar, 40, who was arrested by NDLEA operatives at Bode Saadu, Morro Local Council of Kwara State, following credible intelligence, on Tuesday, October 21.
In Taraba, Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were arrested on Tuesday, October 21, with 450,000 pills of Tramadol and exol-5, at Dan-anacha checkpoint, while conveying the consignment in a truck loaded with building materials from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.
