Monday, October 28, 2024 – Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency on Sunday said
they turned down a N10m bribe offered to free one drug suspect, Tsolaye
Eburajolo, arrested earlier in Lagos.
This was as the operatives recovered 26,250,000 pills of tramadol as
well as 508,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth N16,683,800,000 in street
value were intercepted by the NDLEA operatives during 100 per cent joint
examination of watch-listed containers with men of Nigeria Customs Service and
other security agencies at the Tin Can Port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port,
Onne, Rivers State between October 22 and 23.
Eburajolo, a 40-year-old man, was arrested at the Ago Palace area of
Okota, Lagos in connection with drugs intercepted by the officials.
According to a statement on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi
Babafemi, the bribe offered to free the suspect had been added to the exhibits
recovered from the suspect.
The statement said, “Other illicit consignments intercepted during the
joint inspection of the containers include 10 million tablets of Toradol
Benzhexol and 28 plastic drums of methamphetamine weighing 700kg at Tincan and
Onne respectively, while 56 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis
weighing 28kg, were also recovered from a container that arrived the Lagos port
from Canada.”
“A suspect, Tsolaye Eburajolo, 40, was arrested at Ago Palace area of
Okota Lagos in connection with the cannabis seizure while a bribe of N10m paid
the NDLEA officers to free the suspect has been kept as part of the exhibits
for the prosecution of the case.
Babafemi said the NDLEA operatives also recovered no fewer than 293
ampoules of promethazine and pentazocine injection as well as 1.690kg cannabis
and tramadol tablets concealed in hair attachments and soles of shoes going to
the United States, United Kingdom and Oman at three courier firms.
“A total of 2,118 pills of tramadol concealed in soles of 13 pairs of
shoes going to Cyprus were seized at the export shed of the Lagos airport on
October 12, 2024, and an additional 380 tablets recovered from the home of the
sender, Okenwa Kelvin Uchenna, during a follow-up operation in Enugu on
Thursday, October 24,” he added.
He noted that the NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Friday, October 25,
raided the Igbo-Igunuko shrine, located at the Alfa Beach, Ajah, where jumbo
bags of Ghanaian Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 2,760kg, were recovered.
“Two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun, were arrested. Another
suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also arrested the same day with 770kg of the
same psychoactive substance along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, “ he added.
Babafemi said a total of 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol and
diazepam, as well as 64 bottles of codeine syrup, were recovered from the
underground storage at the residence of one Muhammad Abdullahi.
He said Abdullahi dug his bedroom at Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, covered it with padlocked iron slate and a rug and then put his mattress on top to avoid being discovered.
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