By A major drug party was disrupted in the early hours of Sunday, 26th October, when operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stormed Proxy Night Club, located at 7 Akin Adesola Street, Victoria Island, Lagos.
Over 100 suspects, including the club owner, Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu, popularly known as Pretty Mike, were arrested and taken into custody for screening.
Mike Eze Nwalie Nwogu
Cartons of illicit substances, including Loud and laughing gas, were recovered from guests and the club’s storage area.
The raid followed actionable intelligence about a planned drug party. NDLEA operatives, who had infiltrated the event around 11 p.m. on Saturday, 25th October, disrupted the gathering at about 3 a.m. on Sunday in line with the Agency’s Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
The nightclub raid came amid a series of coordinated nationwide operations by the NDLEA, which also uncovered a cocaine trafficking network at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
Suspects
Seventy parcels of cocaine, factory-packed and concealed in cocoa butter formula body cream containers bound for London, were intercepted by NDLEA officers at the airport’s export shed. The 3.6-kilogram consignment was discovered on 14th October during routine examination of cargo labelled as personal effects on an Air Peace flight to the United Kingdom.
A cargo agent, Lawal Mustapha Olakunle, who presented the shipment for export, was arrested immediately. Two more principal suspects — Ogunmuyide Taiwo Deborah, a healthcare worker, and Mutiu Adebayo Adebiyi, the Chief Executive Officer of Mutiu Adebiyi & Co Travel Agency — were later apprehended in follow-up operations between 18th and 20th October at separate locations in Lagos.
Suspects
In Enugu State, NDLEA operatives thwarted an attempt by a 35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark, to export 103.59 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a Diabeta Herbs coffee tea pack to the Philippines on an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Akanu Ibiam International Airport (AIIA).
Similarly, in Kwara State, operatives acting on credible intelligence arrested Umar Abubakar, 40, at Bode Saadu, Moro LGA, on 21st October. He was found with 21,950 capsules of Tramadol 250mg hidden inside a 100-litre water heater.
One of the suspects
Across other states, NDLEA’s enforcement efforts continued to yield results. In Taraba, Auwal Musa, 26, and Salihu Bala, 22, were intercepted at Dan-Anacha checkpoint with 450,000 pills of Tramadol and Exol-5 while conveying the drugs from Onitsha, Anambra State, to Mubi, Adamawa State.
On 24th October, NDLEA officers patrolling the Okene–Lokoja highway in Kogi State seized 162.2 kilograms of skunk, a potent strain of cannabis, from a truck, while in Nasarawa State, operatives recovered 128 kilograms of the same substance from Abubakar Muhammad, 55, in Keffi.
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In Lagos, a mother of two, Oyonumoh Glory Effiong, was arrested on 17th October at her Lekki residence. She was identified as a major distributor of Canadian and California Loud — strong cannabis strains popular in Lekki, Ajah, Ikoyi, Victoria Island, and VGC. About 500 grams of the illicit drugs were recovered.
Also in Lagos, NDLEA officers raided the home of Ogunyabo Adenigbigbe at Solomade Estate, Ikorodu, on 23rd October, where 275 litres of skuchies, a psychoactive drink made with blackcurrant, cannabis, and opioids, were seized.
75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka
In Abia State, a 75-year-old grandfather, Echendu Onuoka, was arrested at Ovum Village, Obingwa LGA, with 4.7 kilograms of skunk, while a 60-year-old grandmother, Aukana John, was caught with 225 grams of the same substance in Apanta Village.
Meanwhile, 150 kilograms of skunk were recovered during a raid at Lot Camp, Ikun Akoko, Ondo State. In Kaduna, Bashir Mohammad, 50, and Samini Ahmed Tijjani, 35, were arrested with 234.5 kilograms of cannabis at Yan Aya, Saminaka, Lere LGA. Another pair, Isah Usman, 50, and Salvation Okoler, 18, were caught along the Abuja–Kaduna highway with 8,600 pills of Tramadol 225mg and Rohypnol.
At the Seme border, NDLEA operatives intercepted Jacob Ojugbele with 55 kilograms of skunk at Ashipa, Badagry, and Amusa Oluwabukola with 121.3 litres of skuchies at Itoga, Badagry.
35-year-old Lesotho national, Lemena Mark
In Zamfara State, a suspect, Abubakar Ibrahim, 30, was arrested on 20th October along the Gummi–Anka road with an AK-47 rifle and 1,746 rounds of assorted ammunition for AK-47 and GPMG rifles.
He was reportedly transporting the weapons from Sokoto to Bagega Forest in Anka LGA. Both the suspect and exhibits have been handed over to the appropriate security agency.
Meanwhile, NDLEA commands across the federation sustained the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation campaign with outreach programmes held in schools, worship centres, workplaces, and communities nationwide.
The latest activities include lectures at Asabari Grammar School, Saki West, Oyo State; Government Day Girls Secondary School, Birnin Kebbi; St. Mark’s College, Nsude, Enugu; Kusaki Secondary School, Gboko, Benue; Police Children School 2, Port Harcourt; and Hajara Ahmad International School, Kano, among others.
Commending officers and men of the MMIA, AIIA, Lagos, Kwara, Abia, Nasarawa, Kogi, Ondo, Anambra, Taraba, Kaduna, Seme, and Zamfara Commands, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), praised their diligence and urged them to sustain the Agency’s balanced approach to drug control.
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