https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=udvMGL-vHH0

Three kingpins and 16 other offenders have been convicted and sentenced to a total of Three Hundred and Two (302) years in prison for trafficking and dealing in illicit drugs such as cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, cannabis and opioids following their arrest and diligent prosecution by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA.

The 19 convicts top the list of 414 drug traffickers and dealers convicted by the Federal High Court in Benue, Bauchi, Edo, Lagos, Ogun, Gombe and the Federal Capital Territory, FCT Abuja between July 1st 31st 2024 based on charges filed against them by the anti-narcotics agency.

One of the three kingpins, 50-year-old Bolanle Lookman Dauda was arrested in an intelligence-led raid by operatives of a special operation unit in NDLEA at Ibiye, along Lagos-Badagry expressway while attempting to cross the land border to deliver the consignment in Ghana on Saturday 25th May 2024.

At the point of his arrest, 42 blocks of cocaine weighing 47.5 kilograms were found on him. A swift follow up operation in his residence at Plot 24/25 OPIC extension, Petedo road, Agbara, Ogun state, led to the recovery of additional eight blocks of the same drug weighing 10kg, bringing the total weight of the cocaine seized from him to 57.5 kilograms.

He was subsequently arraigned before Hon. Justice Ambrose Allagoa of the Federal High Court, Lagos in charge number FHC/L/537C/2024. In his judgment delivered on 19th July 2024, Justice Allagoa convicted and sentenced him to 21 years imprisonment or payment of an option of N30million fine.

Another kingpin who was put behind bars is 34-year-old Ikeh Stanley Ifeanyi who was arrested at the popular Idumota market in Lagos Island, where no fewer than 1,100 ampoules of lethal synthetic opioid, fentanyl, weighing 6.480kg were recovered from him. The dangerous opioid is 100 times more potent than heroin and currently responsible for over 70% overdose deaths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the US.

He was later arraigned before Justice Kehinde Ogundare of the Federal High Court Lagos in charge number FHC/L/433C/2024. Delivering his judgment on 4th July 2024, the trial judge convicted Ifeanyi on the two counts charge and sentenced him to 14 years in jail or an option of N2million fine.

In his own case, Christian Anyanwu was arrested on Saturday 26th November, 2022 with 1.4 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed inside custard tins packed among cosmetics and foodstuffs going to Brazil via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight. He was subsequently docked before Justice Yellin Bogoro of the Federal High Court Lagos, and later convicted on 12th July 2024. In his ruling, the trial judge sentenced Anyanwu to 16 years in jail, four of which is a mandatory imprisonment without an option of fine.

Others who bagged mandatory imprisonment in July for drug trafficking include: Moses Yakubu sentenced to 25 years in prison on 22nd July by Justice Rita Ajumogobia of the Federal High Court Abuja; Oluosun Okikiola who was convicted and sentenced to 15 years in jail on 17th July by Justice A. A Okeke of the Federal High Court Abeokuta, Ogun state. In the same vein, Justice R.J Abubakar of the Federal High Court, Makurdi, Benue state convicted and sentenced Chanchan Terpase to seven years in prison on 9th July while Justice C.O. Obiozor of the Federal High Court, Benin, Edo state convicted and sentenced Beauty Gani to 30 years in prison or payment of an option of N8million fine on 3rd July 2024.

While commending the officers and men of the various commands involved in the arrest and prosecution of the cases as well as the judiciary for speedy adjudication, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd) said the sentencing of the convicts will further give bite to the drug supply reduction efforts of the Agency.

https://x.com/ndlea_nigeria/status/1824385623194517749

Businessman excretes 88 wraps of cocaine as NDLEA intercepts drugs in noodles at MMIA

A Vietnam-bound businessman, Paul Okwuy Mbadugha, has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja after he tested positive to ingestion of cocaine.

The 54-year-old suspect was intercepted at the boarding gate of the Abuja airport on Monday 12th August 2024 during the outward clearance of Qatar Airways flight QR 1432 to Hanoi, Vietnam via Doha. After four days under excretion observation, Mbadugha excreted a total of 88 wraps of the illicit drug with a gross weight of 1.710 kilograms.

In his confessional statement, Mbadugha claimed he’s a Lagos based businessman and was given the cocaine pellets to swallow by a friend at the Isolo area of the state for onward delivery in Vietnam for a fee of $2,000.

In the same vein, NDLEA officers at the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos have intercepted a shipment of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 800 grams concealed in noodles going to Congo. A follow up operation at the Alaba International market, Ojo area of Lagos led to the arrest of the sender of the consignment, Nnamani Sunday Sunny, who deals in GSM handsets.

Meanwhile, a large consignment of Loud imported from Canada have been recovered by NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport. A suspect, Desalu Taophic Temitope, who arrived on board an Air France flight with six boxes was arrested by anti-narcotic officers during a joint examination by security agencies at the arrival hall.

A total of 65.80 kilograms of the psychoactive substance were recovered from four of the six suitcases. In his statement, Desalu said he and an accomplice currently at large were promised $10,000 upon successful delivery of the shipment in Lagos.

No less than Eight Hundred and Ninety-Two Thousand Four Hundred (892,400) bottles of codeine-based syrup worth Six Billion Two Hundred and Forty-Six Million Eight Hundred Thousand Naira (N6,246,800,000.00) in street value were recovered from five containers by NDLEA operatives at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers state during a joint examination of the containers with men of the Nigeria Customs and other port stakeholders on Wednesday 14th and Thursday 15th August 2024. The bottles of the opioid were packed in 5,337 cartons with a gross weight of 133,860 kilograms and shipped in five containers from India.

https://ndlea.gov.ng/news/businessman-excretes-88-wraps-of-cocaine-as-ndlea-intercepts-drugs-in-noodles-at-mmia

Na wa for this people.

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Ndi south. I tire for una

You will see the names you are looking for 🙄😏😒

They are already prepared and not afraid of any consequence.
Drug Barron

They should send him to God if found guilty....... I hate nonsense

It's satisfying seeing Bolanle lukman dada and desalu taofeek temitope learn from the drug master himself, the Chicago kingpin and bullion van kleptomaniac basterd

They are already prepared and not afraid of any consequence.
Drug Barrons.
All tribes are well represented.

Death sentence could have been better.

302 years in jail!

This judge funny, why not a round figure like 300, why the extra 2 years?

Lol

Why are you giving options of fines this not sentence that's freedom.

302 years imprisonment
Even their dead bodies go serve jail term

Check their state of origin. U go dey here Abia, Imo, Anambra, Ebonyi, Enugu. Dem swear for una?

The reason why drug trafficking booms in this part of the world especially Nigeria,is because there is always options of fine,
And tell me which drug kingpin won't have the fine?

Also the same as cyber crime and corruption,

Just have plenty money for fine,you are good to go.

on POINT .

muykem:
Death sentence could have been better.

J

I don’t even envy all this rich guys anymore
Omo patience and faith but I’ll get there

302 years imprisonment haaaa...sound like child's play to me now, if it's life imprisonment state it categorically, which one is 302 years again, i read it like 3 times to be sure am seeing correctly

Good

Helinues as you wan Dey jobless just join these guys na after all Tinubu go cover you

COMRADES, 300 plus years, unless God wades into this case, otherwise that is the end of matter for you in this life

Really a bag of jailterm

Coronavirus1:
Why are you giving options of fines this not sentence that's freedom.

Sad. The justice system has become a joke. Which deterrence will a 2m fine serve?

Where are those destroying this country through political fraud

The 2 million fine is too small for 15 years jail

belzabull:
It's satisfying seeing Bolanle lukman dada and desalu taofeek temitope learn from the drug master himself, the Chicago kingpin and bullion van kleptomaniac basterd

Fake ID.

That's Chukwudi and Ifeanyi. I know them very well

This is Nigeria, those guys have rich men sponsoring then. They are not going to prison
Nigeria is very corrupt
EFCC and NDLEA are very corrupt