CRIME

Marwa Arrests Notorious Drug Dealer

<p><em>Marwa Arrests Notorious Drug Dealer<&sol;em><br &sol;>&NewLine;<strong><a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;openlife&period;ng&sol;">OpenLife Nigeria<&sol;a><&sol;strong> has gathered that a notorious drug dealer&comma; Okoli Collins Ikenna&comma; who is the mastermind of recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to London in the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport&comma; MMIA&comma; and some courier companies in Lagos has been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency&comma; NDLEA&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;According to the agency’s spokesman&comma; Femi Babafemi through a statement made available to NAOSRE&comma; Okoli has been on court bail following his arrest in November 2020 and subsequent arraignment before a Lagos Federal High Court for attempting to export 15&period;700kgs of Methamphetamine to Australia&period; Series of investigations into recent multiple attempts to export illicit drugs to the UK led to the arrest of the drug dealer on Tuesday 2nd November&comma; when he was caught with 78 parcels of Cannabis&comma; concealed in black soap packs labelled as Dudu Osun&comma; with a total weight of 12&period;250 kilograms heading to United Kingdom&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Further investigation also revealed that Okoli is the one behind the attempt to export 7&period;350kgs of Cannabis to the UK on Thursday 21st October&comma; a consignment that was intercepted at NAHCO export shed of the <a href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;punchng&period;com&sol;">MMIA<&sol;a>&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Curiously&comma; a separate investigation by operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation&comma; DOGI&comma; of the Agency&comma; attached to courier companies have equally traced two other attempts to export 47&period;7kgs of cannabis to the UK through courier firms&comma; to Okoli after his agents&comma; arrested in the course of investigation named him as the owner of the consignments&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In the same vein&comma; desperate bids by traffickers to export over 2 kilograms of Cocaine&comma; Methamphetamine and Cannabis hidden inside containers of body cream&comma; tea bags&comma; vehicle oil and air filters to London&comma; Saudi Arabia&comma; United Arab Emirate and New Zealand through two major courier firms in Lagos have been scuttled by narcotic officers of the Agency&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Kano&comma; a controlled delivery of an illicit consignment on Friday 5th November led to the arrest of two suspects&semi; Ibrahim Sulaiman and Muhammad Sani Alhassan with 23kgs of Diazepam tablets&semi; 2kgs of Codeine syrup and 32kgs of Exol 5 tablets&comma; bringing the total weight to 57kgs&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Earlier on Wednesday 3rd November&comma; operatives of the Kano command of the Agency had arrested one Mizambilu Tijjani&comma; with 64kgs of Cannabis sativa and<br &sol;>&NewLine;Victor Nsodikwa Chu-chu&comma; with 34 cartons of Pentazocine injection and one carton of Diazepam injection in Sabongari area of the city&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;In Kogi state&comma; operatives also seized a consignment containing 28&period;251kgs of Exol- 5&semi; 6&period;6kgs of Barcadin Codeine Syrup&semi; over 38&period;532kgs of Tramadol&comma; bringing the total drugs seized to 73&period;808kgs&period; In a related development&comma; operatives of the Osun state command have seized 130&period;518kgs of cannabis and 18grams of Cocaine in Modakeke area of Ile-Ife&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;Impressed by the outcome of investigations that led to the dismantling of the drug syndicate led by Okoli in Lagos&comma; Chairman&sol;Chief Executive of NDLEA&comma; Brig&period; Gen&period; Mohamed Buba Marwa &lpar;Retd&rpar; commended the officers and men of the MMIA command&comma; DOGI and their counterparts in Kano&comma; Kogi and Osun for sustaining the heat on the cartels across the country&period; He urged them and their compatriots in other commands to intensify the offensive action against all merchants of death in Nigeria&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;

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