Monday, November 24, 2025 - In a blistering crackdown on drug trafficking organizations across the country, operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have dismantled no fewer than six syndicates, leading to the seizure of tons of assorted illicit drugs and the arrest of nine kingpins.
In one of such operations, NDLEA officers last Tuesday arrested two
members of a drug trafficking organization in Onitsha, Anambra State, when they
showed up to take delivery of 5.40 kilograms of methamphetamine; 10.70
kilograms of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis; 16 grams of cocaine; 200 grams
of phenacetin; 200 grams of methcathinone; and 100 grams of caffeine concealed
in pressure machine cylinders imported from South Africa.
The first to show up at a logistics company in Onitsha for the
collection of the consignments was 30-year-old electrical appliances dealer,
Ebulue Lotanwa Uzochukwu, who was promptly arrested. Shortly after, another
member of the syndicate, 51-year-old South Africa returnee, Christopher Michael
Ndibuisi, showed up and was equally arrested.
The consignments had arrived the import shed of the Murtala
Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja-Lagos, with airway bill number
118-12882973, arriving from South Africa on a Tag-Angola flight on November 13,
2025, and were immediately seized based on credible intelligence.
A follow-up sting operation was thereafter organized in Onitsha,
Anambra State, where the recipients, Uzochukwu and Ndibuisi, were arrested.
In another operation at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on
Thursday intercepted a brake servo automobile part used to conceal 48 pellets
and a block of cocaine with a gross weight of 2.30 kilograms packed among other
auto parts going to Gabon.
Following the arrest of a freight agent, Ameh Solomon, who
presented the consignment for export, a follow-up at ASMPDA market, Trade Fair
Complex, Ojo, Lagos, led to the arrest of an auto parts dealer, Nwafor Tochukwu
Boniface.
In Kogi State, NDLEA operatives on Monday, November 17, intercepted
a trailer conveying 4,700 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, at Kabba.
Three suspects accompanying the consignment—Solomon Dauda, Friday Garba, and
Daniel Danladi—were arrested. A follow-up operation in Jos, Plateau State, on
Friday led to the arrest of the kingpin who owns the trailer and the illicit
drug consignment, Marcus Danladi Dan Mangu.
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