Two Ghanaians, Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana, and 11 other suspects have been arrested for drug-related offences in different parts of Nigeria.
Director, Media and Advocacy, National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, who confirmed the development in a statement, in Abuja. He added that the agency’s operatives intercepted two imported consignments of a strong strain of cannabis known as loud, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms in the Lekki area of Lagos State.
He also said based on credible intelligence, the Agency’s operatives ambushed a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2,434 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki Expressway.
Babafemi explained that the driver jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security van escorting the truck conveying the drug exhibits, adding that the anti-narcotics officers demobilised the truck.
