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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has recovered hard drugs worth N4.8 billion from a warehouse in Lagos.
NDLEA spokesman, Mr Femi Babafemi stated on Sunday in Abuja that the warehouse is tucked in the popular International Trade Fair Complex, Alaba, Ojo area of Lagos.
He added that NDLEA operatives raided the warehouse owned by a wanted billionaire drug baron on Saturday, Aug. 19.
He stated that the raid yielded 1.4 million pills of tramadol (225mg), weighing 826kg and 3.2 million pills of codeine with a gross weight of 3,360kg.
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Babafemi stated that 2,841 cartons of codeine syrup containing 28,410 litres of the substance in 284,100 bottles were also recovered from the warehouse.
“The drugs have a combined street value of N4,820,500,000,’’ he stated.
Babafemi stated also that during the operation that lasted hours, a suspect, Paulinus Ojukwu, the Chief Security Officer to the wanted drug baron was arrested and was assisting in an ongoing investigation.
(NAN)
