The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a container of tramadol at the Apapa seaport in Lagos.
NDLEA operatives also arrested 90 persons, including an Indian, during raid of some drug cartels in parts of Lagos where a total of 614.396kg of various hard drugs were seized.
The Director, Media and Advocacy of NDLEA, Mr Femi Babafemi, said in Abuja that at the Apapa seaport, about two million capsules of tramadol (precisely 1,994,400 capsules) tucked in 554 cartons were intercepted in the container, which was falsely declared to contain ceramic tiles.
Babafemi quoted the Apapa seaport Area Commander of NDLEA, Mr Samuel Gadzama, as saying that one of the containers bearing the illicit drug had been intercepted and seized in Kenya.
Gadzama said, “Though the second container found its way to Nigeria, but our narcotic agents discovered it during a joint inspection of the ship.”
Babafemi added that in the same vein, operatives of the Lagos State Command of the agency raided some drug spots in Agege, Ikorodu, Lekki, Okokomaiko and other parts of the state and dismantled major drug syndicates, arrested suspects and seized large quantities of hard drugs.
