NDLEA officers apprehend a narcotics suspect and turn down a N10 million bribe

NDLEA officers apprehend a narcotics suspect and turn down a N10 million bribe.
On Sunday, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency agents said that they declined a N10 million bribe to release Tsolaye Eburajolo, a drug suspect who had been detained earlier in Lagos.


During a 100% joint examination of watch-listed containers with Nigeria Customs Service and other security agency personnel at the Tin Can Port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port, Onne, Rivers State, between October 22 and 23, the NDLEA operatives seized 508,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 26,250,000 tramadol pills valued at N16,683,800,000 in street value.

A 40-year-old guy named Eburajolo was taken into custody in Okota, Lagos' Ago Palace neighbourhood in relation to drugs that were seized by the authorities.

Femi Babafemi, the agency's spokeswoman, said in a statement on Sunday that the exhibits found on the suspect included the bribe promised in exchange for the suspect's release.


In addition, 56 packages of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 28 kg, were found in a container that arrived at the Lagos port from Canada, the statement said. "Other illegal consignments intercepted during the joint inspection of the containers include 10 million tablets of Toradol Benzhexol and 28 plastic drums of methamphetamine weighing 700 kg at Tincan and Onne respectively."

In relation to the cannabis seizure, a 40-year-old suspect named Tsolaye Eburajolo was detained in the Ago Palace neighbourhood of Okota, Lagos, and NDLEA officers were bribed N10 million to release the culprit retained as a component of the evidence used in the case's prosecution.

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According to Babafemi, the NDLEA agents also found 293 ampoules of injections of promethazine and pentazocine, 1.690 kg of cannabis, and tramadol tablets hidden in the soles of shoes and hair attachments that were being shipped to the US, UK, and Oman at three courier companies.


On October 12, 2024, 2,118 tramadol pills hidden in the soles of 13 pairs of shoes headed to Cyprus were found at the Lagos airport's export shed, and an extra 380 tablets were found during a follow-up investigation in Enugu on Thursday, October 24, at the residence of the sender, Okenwa Kelvin Uchenna," he continued.

He reported that giant bags of Ghanaian Loud, a cannabis strain measuring 2,760 kg, were found during an NDLEA raid on the Igbo-Igunuko shrine at Alfa Beach, Ajah, on Friday, October 25.

Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun, two suspects, were taken into custody. Along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also taken into custody that same day with 770 kg of the same psychoactive substance, he continued.

According to Babafemi, 64 bottles of codeine syrup and 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol, and diazepam were found in an underground storage facility at a Muhammad Abdullahi residence.

He claimed that in order to prevent being found, Abdullahi dug up his bedroom at Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, covered it with a rug and padlocked iron slate, and then placed his mattress on top.


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