By Ayodele Oni
A driver of a truck conveying bags of substance suspected to be drugs jumped out and escaped along with others after the vehicle was intercepted by officials of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA).
The incident happened along Epe – Lekki corridor at Alfa beach, in Lagos state.
A statement on Sunday by the NDLEA said its Operatives intercepted two imported consignments of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms along the Epe-Lekki corridor and at the Alfa beach, Lekki area of Lagos state.
The statement signed by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, revealed that the first interception was based on credible intelligence, adding that NDLEA operatives laid ambush for a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2,434.1 kilogrammes along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of last Monday.
It explained that based on credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives ambushed a white truck conveying 50 jumbo bags of the illicit substance weighing 2, 434.1kg along the Epe-Lekki expressway in the early hours of Monday 19th June.
The truck driver, however, jumped out of the vehicle and escaped in a security hilux van escorting the truck, after the anti-narcotics officers successfully demobilized the truck conveying the drug exhibits.
Babafemi said, in the second interception around Alfa Beach in Lekki, officers of the Marine Command of the Agency, last Tuesday, acting on intelligence, intercepted a boat loaded with the same imported substance weighing 2,910 kilogrammes upon arrival from Ghana.
Two Ghanaians, Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, found with the consignments were promptly arrested.
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