Two Ghanaians and 11 other people are detained by NDLEA for drugs trafficking.

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency announced on Sunday that Monday Saba and Hakeem Kwana, two Ghanaians, and 11 other individuals had been detained for drug-related offenses in various regions of the nation.

In a statement released on Sunday, the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, confirmed the development and said that two imported consignments of the potent loud strain of cannabis, with a combined weight of 5,344.1 kilograms, were intercepted by agency officials in the Lekki area of Lagos State.

He further disclosed that, on the basis of reliable intelligence, NDLEA agents ambushed a white truck traveling along the Epe-Lekki Expressway in the early hours of Monday, June 19, carrying 50 jumbo bags of the illegal material, each weighing 2,434.1kg.

The anti-narcotics agents demobilized the truck, according to Babafemi, who also claimed that the driver leapt out of the car and fled in a security van that was accompanying the truck carrying the drug exhibits.

The NDLEA spokesman went on to say that the following day, based on intelligence, agents from the agency’s marine command stopped a boat carrying the same imported drug, weighing 2,910kg, as it arrived from Ghana in the area of Alfa Beach.

Babafemi said, “Two Ghanaians, Monday Saba, 30, and Hakeem Kwana, 27, found with the consignments, were promptly arrested. In Niger State, two suspects, Abubakar Mohammed, 32, and Nuhu Sale, 43, were arrested on Sunday, June 18, along Abuja Expressway, Suleja, with 31 jumbo bags of skunk weighing 517kg, while 30-year-old Amina Alilu was arrested with 171kg of the substance on Wednesday, June 21, at Ogbogodo village, Dekina LGA, Kogi State.

“A suspected fake female security agent, Ogedegbe Dorcas, 34, was also nabbed at Ajegunle, in the Asa Dam Area of Ilorin, Kwara State, with 30kg of cannabis on Thursday, June 22, while in Oyo State, NDLEA operatives intercepted 42-year-old Segun Olajide with 49.2kg of same substance on Saturday, June 24, in Oyo town.

“Operatives in Edo State stormed Ekudo Forest, Uhunmwode LGA, where they destroyed a cannabis farm measuring 2.494863 hectares, recovered processed weeds weighing 67kg and arrested six suspects including Onyeka Onyedinma, Monday Onyedi, Alex Eboh, Edosa Imariagbe, Godbless Tunde and Godstime Osarobo in the early hours of Monday, June 19.”