Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, have arrested a Brazil-based drug dealer, Okafor Okwudili Moses over two point five-five kilograms of cocaine recovered from a toilet at the E-Arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.

According to its Director Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed this in a statement, the drug was discovered in the toilet of the airport on November twelveth after it was dumped by a trafficker who was obviously scared of being caught by narcotic officers positioned at the airport.

In his statement, the following day, November thirteenth, the actual owner of the consignment, Okafor arrived at the airport from Brazil via an Ethiopian Airline and was promptly arrested.
While being interviewed in custody, he confirmed he is the owner of the seized illicit drug.

In other interdiction operations across the country, over 6,043.857 kilograms of assorted illicit drugs were recovered in five states of Adamawa, Ondo, Ekiti, Edo and Ebonyi with more than two hectares of cannabis farms destroyed.

A suspected fake security agent, Abdullahi Mohammed, who claimed to be serving in one of the security formations in Mubi, Adamawa state was arrested with four blocks of Cannabis Sativa weighing 4kg along Bazza- Michika road.

In the same vein, four other suspects were arrested at different locations in Jimeta, Yola North LGA, with assorted substances such as Cannabis, Diazepam, Exol- 5 and Tramadol tablets.

In Ondo state, three persons: Alabi Idowu; Oluwatomipe Olorundare and Finity Sunday were arrested on November fifteenth and a total of 2,771kgs of Cannabis recovered from them at Oke Ogun camp, Ipele, Owo LGA, while 59-year-old Joy Peter was nabbed with over 39kg cannabis and Tramadol tablets on November seventeenth.
Similarly, over 2, 832kg of drugs were seized and more than two hectares of cannabis farms destroyed in parts of Ekiti state. While 2,582kg of Cannabis was recovered on November sixteenth from Itapaji forest, Ipao, Ikole LGA, 250kg was seized from Ise forest, Ise-Orun LGA where the cannabis farm was also destroyed on November eighteenth.
Meanwhile, in Ebonyi, 29-year-old Ivoh Chukwuemeka accompanied by his girlfriend Ogbonna Peace, 18, was intercepted along Enugu-Abakaliki expressway with 20.357kg cannabis on Novermber nineteenth. Similarly, 377.5kg cannabis was seized from at least two suspects: Lucky Okhian and Aaron Monday in Owan West LGA and Okpokhumi forest in Owan East LGA of Edo state.
Reacting to the arrest of Okafor, other suspects and the seizures from the states, Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brigadier-General Buba Marwa Retired commended the officers and men involved in the operations across the commands for sustaining the heat on drug cartels in the country.
According to him, they are proving to the bad guys and merchants of death that they will not stay a step ahead of them but two steps in this game, and this they must sustain as they prepare to go into the new year.