Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have seized 126 parcels of Canadian loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 63 kilograms, concealed in a used Toyota Corolla car imported from Toronto, Canada at the Tincan seaport in Lagos.
The spokesman for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi made this known on Sunday in a statement.
Babafemi said, “When Mordi presented the bag, which he claimed contained food items for export; operatives noticed that in the course of searching the consignment, the side walls of the bag were unevenly bloated, after which they dismantled the false packings and recovered the illicit substance.
“The previous day, Friday, April 28, operatives at the Tincan port intercepted 63kg Canadian loud packed in bags in the boot of one of the five used vehicles in a container marked, TLLU4840762 coming from Toronto via Montreal, during a joint examination with other stakeholders at the port.
“Similarly, men of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and Investigation, attached to courier firms also on Thursday, April 27, intercepted 1.53kg skunk concealed in old hard drives meant for export to Dubai, United Arab Emirate.”
Babafemi further noted that in Benue, operatives recovered 859 bottles of Codeine-based Syrup weighing 117.3kg abandoned by a suspected dealer about two kilometres away from NDLEA checkpoint along Enugu – Otukpo road on Wednesday, April 26.
