{"id":2512532,"date":"2025-04-29T16:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2512532\/"},"modified":"2025-04-29T16:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:00:18","slug":"ndlea-arrests-lekki-italy-based-businessmen-over-illicit-drug-shipments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/2512532\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA arrests Lekki, Italy-based businessmen over illicit drug shipments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Lekki-based businessman in connection with the shipment of 60 parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, from the United States of America to Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>The NDLEA also stopped another businessman from exporting 1,400 pills of tramadol to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The 43-year-old businessman and proprietor of Damillionz Takeout was arrested at a Lounge on Admiralty Way in the Lekki area of Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>His arrest followed the seizure of his cargo that arrived Nigeria in seven big cartons at a logistics company in Lagos by NDLEA operatives.<\/p>\n<p>After a search of his Lekki home, the total weight of drugs seized from the suspect was 32.24 kilograms.<\/p>\n<p>NDLEA officers at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos have also foiled an attempt by another businessman to export 1,400 pills of tramadol 225mg weighing 800 grams to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-spai-excluded=\"true\" class=\"epyt-facade-poster skip-lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"YouTube player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/1745942418_671_maxresdefault.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The suspect was intercepted at the screening point of terminal 2 of the Lagos airport on his way to Italy via a Qatar Airways flight.<\/p>\n<p>Investigation revealed the suspect is an Italy based frequent traveler and logistics agent.<\/p>\n<p>In Katsina state, four suspects were arrested last Friday during an intelligence-led raid operation at Godai village in Daura Local Government.<\/p>\n<p>Operatives recovered 684 blocks of compressed skunk, a strain of cannabis weighing 423kg and 86,000 pills of diazepam from the suspects.<\/p>\n<p>The three male suspects were arrested while repackaging the diazepam tablets into other containers while the female suspect was apprehended with the heaps of skunk in her house.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, NDLEA operatives have destroyed more than 13,198 kilograms of cannabis sativa in Edo forests and in raids across parts of the state.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman of NDLEA Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) has commended operatives on their operational successes especially their balanced approach to drug supply and demand reduction.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a Lekki-based businessman in connection<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2512533,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[784996],"tags":[409524,188914,788489,133797,788490,106108,12477],"class_list":{"0":"post-2512532","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-italy","8":"tag-arrest","9":"tag-europe","10":"tag-illicit-drug-shipments","11":"tag-italy","12":"tag-ndlea","13":"tag-nigeria","14":"tag-12477"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/wakoka.com\/@news\/114422089885050480","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2512532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2512532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2512533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2512532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2512532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wacoca.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2512532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}