Meth lab uncovered in Lagos residential area

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have uncovered a secret laboratory producing an illicit drug, methamphetamine (meth) in a residential area in Ikeja, Lagos State, where packaged sachets of the drug and various chemicals used in its production were recovered.

The laboratory, located at No 4, Bode Oluwo Street, Mende, Maryland, Ikeja, was stormed by the anti-narcotics officers on Tuesday, June 6, after credible intelligence and surveillance confirmed the illicit substance was being produced in a duplex.

Spokesman of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday in Abuja in a statement, said, “At the end of the search, one kilogramme of already produced and packaged methamphetamine, quantities of precursor chemicals and other items used for the production of the deadly drug were recovered from the house, while efforts are on to apprehend the fleeing owner of the house.”

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In the same vein, officers of the Lagos command of the agency, the previous day, arrested two suspects: Wasiu Saliu and Afolabi Banjo, with 247kg of Indian hemp at the Oyingbo area of Lagos, while one Tijani Damilola was nabbed at Isheri with 12.5 litres of skoochies and 98kg of indian hemp.