The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has arrested a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, Ndubuisi Udatu, also known as Richard.
NDLEA stated that Richard was carrying two giant music speakers used to conceal four large parcels of methamphetamine weighing 2.7 kilograms, intended for distribution in Yola and Mubi, Adamawa State, and across the border into Cameroon.
According to a statement released on Sunday by Femi Babafemi, Director of Media and Advocacy at NDLEA Headquarters in Abuja, Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at a checkpoint located at Namtari, along the Ngurore-Yola road, Adamawa, on Monday, April 7, 2025.
Babafemi disclosed that the suspect was found with two new music speakers used to conceal four packages of methamphetamine and a monetary exhibit of N22,300.
NDLEA stated that the suspect, in his statement, claimed he returned to Nigeria to continue his illicit drug trade after serving his jail term in Malaysia, where he had been arrested, convicted, and sent to prison for drug trafficking offenses.
In another interdiction exercise, NDLEA officers, in a joint border operation with Customs personnel at the Nigeria/Cameroon border in Mfum, Cross River State, arrested a trans-border drug trafficker, 35-year-old Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids, weighing 395 kg. These include: 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.
In Kano, NDLEA operatives on Friday, April 11, 2025, arrested 27-year-old Aliyu Ibrahim with 20 ATM cards and 25,600 pills of tramadol (225mg and 250mg) at the Bachirawa area of Kano, while 48-year-old Gambo Lawan was nabbed in a follow-up operation at Wazobia motor park, Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja, following the seizure of a consignment of 8,960 pills of tramadol by NDLEA officers on routine checks along the Gwagwalada expressway on Monday, April 7.
Not less than 124 kilograms of skunk, a strain of cannabis, packaged in 11 jumbo bags, were recovered on Friday, April 11, from the boot of a Lexus car marked KTU 54 CU, driven by a suspect, Ademiluyi Adedapo Collins, 58, along the Mokwa-Jebba road, Niger State.
Reacting to the development, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd.), commended the efforts of the officers and men of the Adamawa, Cross River, FCT, Kano, and Niger State Commands of the Agency for a job well done.
Marwa tasked them and their compatriots nationwide not to rest on their laurels but continue to raise the bar in their offensive action against drug cartels, with equal measures of drug demand reduction efforts.
