In a significant maritime operation, the Marine Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two boats laden with 1,960 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, at Eleko Beach in Lekki, Lagos, in the early hours of Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024.<\/p>\n
Six foreign nationals transporting the illicit drugs from Ghana were arrested during the operation. <\/span><\/p>\n The suspects include two Ghanaians, Godsway John (38) and Freedom Kelvin (33), and four Beninese nationals, Chegoun Hounsou (23), Gadabor Nyameto (47), Adantg Sasa (34), and Ayao Kayivi (21).<\/span><\/p>\n A 21-year-old suspect, Kosisochukwu Ozigbo, was arrested at New Lagos Road, Benin City, Edo State, during a raid conducted by NDLEA operatives on Monday, December 23, 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n Items recovered from the suspect included 32,490 pills of Tramadol (225mg, 200mg, and 100mg), 936 bottles of codeine-based syrup, and various quantities of other opioids.<\/span><\/p>\n Commands across the country complemented their drug supply reduction operations with <\/span>War Against Drug Abuse<\/span> (WADA) advocacy campaigns in schools, markets, worship centers, and communities. <\/span><\/p>\n Some of these campaigns included a WADA sensitization lecture delivered by the Lagos State Strategic Command in collaboration with the Menitos Foundation to residents of the Akoka community at Ayetoro Primary School, Akoka Bariga. <\/span><\/p>\n Similarly, the Adamawa State Command of the NDLEA conducted a lecture for members of Jama\u2019atul Nasril Islam during their annual First Aid Group and leadership camp in Adamawa, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n While commending the efforts of the officers and men of the NAIA, Katsina, Edo, and Marine Commands of the agency for their excellent work over the past week, the Chairman\/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), urged them and their counterparts nationwide not to rest on the achievements of 2024. <\/span><\/p>\n He encouraged them to continue raising the bar in their offensive actions against drug barons and cartels, matched by equally robust WADA sensitization campaigns in the new year.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" In a significant maritime operation, the Marine Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted two boats laden with 1,960 kilograms of Ghanaian Loud, a potent strain of cannabis, at Eleko Beach in Lekki, Lagos, in the early hours of Christmas Eve, December 24, 2024.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21720,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[9933,9929,9931,9932,9930,9928,203],"class_list":["post-21719","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-metro","tag-beninese","tag-boats","tag-eleko-beach","tag-ghanaians","tag-illicit-drug-consignments","tag-intercepts","tag-ndlea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21719"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21721,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21719\/revisions\/21721"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21719"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21719"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theblogonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21719"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}