At a warehouse hidden in the middle of the well-known International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo neighbourhood of Lagos, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency on Saturday confiscated illicit substances valued at several billion naira.
This was disclosed in a statement released by the media officer of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, 1.4 million (1,400,000) tramadol 225mg pills weighing 826kgs; 3.2 million (3,200,000) codeine pills weighing 3,360kgs; and 2,841 cartons of codeine syrup containing 284,100 bottles containing 28,410 litres of the psychoactive substance, with a combined street value of N4,820,500,000, were recovered from the warehouse owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron.
He stated that during the hours-long operation, a suspect, Paulinus Ojukwu, Chief Security Officer of the sought drug baron who masquerades as an automobile spare parts merchant, was apprehended and is now supporting the ongoing investigation.
The latest drug warehouse bust follows the arrest of a drug baroness, Faith Ebele Nwankwo, on Wednesday 9th August with two million seven hundred and fifty thousand (2,750,000) pills of tramadol 225mg and 250mg recovered from her residence at House 6, C close, 3rd Avenue, Festac area of Lagos and a warehouse located at Plot 3432 Sola Akinsola Street, Divine Estate, Amuwo Odofin, Lagos.
