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NDLEA Arrests 80-Year-Old Grandma, Chinese Businessman for Drug Trafficking
The NDLEA has arrested an 80-year-old grandma, Grace Ekpeme, and Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, for trafficking synthetic cannabis and Canadian loud.
The NDLEA has arrested an 80-year-old grandma, Grace Ekpeme, and Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, for trafficking synthetic cannabis and Canadian loud.
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an 80-year-old grandmother, Grace Ekpeme, and a Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, for drug peddling in a major nationwide crackdown.
According to a statement issued on Sunday, July 27, by NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the arrests were part of operations that uncovered synthetic cannabis, popularly known as “colorado,” hidden in ‘moimoi’ sachets, and Canadian loud concealed in imported canned food.
Babafemi said Liang was arrested on Friday at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos, after undercover officers tracked him from his port of departure, allowing him to pass through immigration before nabbing him on his way out.
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“The suspect, who arrived in Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai on an Emirates Airlines flight, is a Chinese national, naturalised and based in Malaysia. He reportedly travelled to Thailand to pick up two suitcases containing 50 parcels of loud, weighing 26.10kg, before flying to Nigeria,” Babafemi stated.
In a separate operation, NDLEA operatives arrested Grace Ekpeme in the early hours of Saturday, July 26, at Edet-Nsa Street, Base Site, Calabar South, Cross River State, following intelligence that linked her to drug trafficking activities.
Babafemi also revealed that operatives intercepted another suspect, Chidi Agbafo, in Lagos on Wednesday, July 23.
“Also in Lagos, NDLEA operatives intercepted a suspect, Chidi Agbafo, along the Epe–Ajah Expressway while transporting consignments of 21.7kg of colorado—some of which were packaged in moimoi cooking sachets—and 3.8 litres of codeine-based syrup in a commercial bus en route to Warri and Oghara in Delta State,” he said.
In a separate seizure, NDLEA discovered 101kg of Canadian loud hidden inside 202 factory-sealed tins of imported food labelled ‘Bean Salad Mix’. The drugs were concealed in two Toyota Sienna buses packed inside a container that arrived from Canada at the Apapa Seaport in Lagos on Friday, July 25.
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