{"id":137044,"date":"2024-01-08T00:49:00","date_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/08\/ndlea-intercepts-hard-drugs-from-us-arrests-suspect-in-lagos-airport\/"},"modified":"2024-01-08T00:49:00","modified_gmt":"2024-01-08T00:49:00","slug":"ndlea-intercepts-hard-drugs-from-us-arrests-suspect-in-lagos-airport","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/08\/ndlea-intercepts-hard-drugs-from-us-arrests-suspect-in-lagos-airport\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Intercepts Hard Drugs From US, Arrests Suspect In Lagos Airport"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has intercepted a consignment of Colorado, reportedly concealed in boxing kits, imported from the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that the hard drug was discovered at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos on New Year\u2019s Day.<\/p>\n<p>Femi added that the development led the agency to embark on a weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested.<\/p>\n<p>INFORMATION NIGRIA reports that a 38-year-old suspect, identified as Olorunfunmi Olakunle, was tracked and apprehended in Lagos, on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ MORE:\u00a0NDLEA Arrests Qatar-Based Businessman, Other With Psychoactive Substances<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The statement partly reads: \u201cOperatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos on New Year day, Monday 1st January 2024 intercepted a consignment of Colorado, a very strong strain of cannabis, concealed in boxing kits imported from the United States of America.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA weeklong intelligence-led operation to get the receiver arrested was consummated on Saturday 6th January following the successful tracking and arrest of 38-year-old Olorunfunmi Saheed Olakunle who distributes the dangerous psychoactive substance to dealers across Lagos state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe consignment had arrived the country on Monday 1st January via Cairo on Egypt Airlines flight marked as boxing kits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAccording to Saheed, he delivers such consignments to different recipients whenever his childhood friend, US-based Sagir Salami sends them. 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In a statement made available to newsmen on Sunday, the NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that the hard drug was discovered at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":137045,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nigeria-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.4 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>NDLEA Intercepts Hard Drugs From US, Arrests Suspect In Lagos Airport - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/01\/08\/ndlea-intercepts-hard-drugs-from-us-arrests-suspect-in-lagos-airport\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"NDLEA Intercepts Hard Drugs From US, Arrests Suspect In Lagos Airport - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, has intercepted a consignment of Colorado, reportedly concealed in boxing kits, imported from the United States of America. 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