NDLEA nabs Malaysian returnee with meth hidden in loud speakers
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has apprehended Ndubuisi Udatu, a 41-year-old ex-convict and Malaysian returnee, with 2.7 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in giant music speakers. The drugs were intended for distribution in Adamawa State and neighboring Cameroon.
A statement signed by NDLEA Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday, said Ndubuisi was arrested inside a commercial transport bus at an NDLEA checkpoint at Namtari along Ngurore-Yola road, in Adamawa State on Monday, April 7, 2025. He was found with two new music speakers used to conceal four packages of methamphetamine and monetary exhibit of ₦22,300 cash.
In his statement, he claimed he returned to Nigeria to continue his illicit drug trade after serving out his jail term in Malaysia, where he had been arrested, convicted and sent to prison for drug trafficking offences.
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In another interdiction exercise, NDLEA officers in a joint border operation with Customs personnel at the Nigeria/Cameroon border in Mfum, Cross River State, arrested a trans-border drug trafficker, 35-year-old Odoh Peter Ikechukwu, with 8,740 ampoules of assorted opioids, weighing 395kg.
They include: 1,080 ampoules of fentanyl injection, 2,160 ampoules of morphine sulphate injection, 3,010 ampoules of phenobarbital sulphate injection, 2,160 ampoules of pethidine injection, and 330 ampoules of midazolam injection.
In Kano State, NDLEA operatives on Friday, April 11, 2025, arrested 27-year-old Aliyu Ibrahim with 20 ATM cards and 25,600 pills of tramadol 225mg and 250mg at Bachirawa area of Kano, while 48-year-old Gambo Lawan was nabbed in a follow-up operation at Wazobia motor park in Gwagwalada, FCT Abuja, following the seizure of a consignment of 8,960 pills of tramadol by NDLEA officers on routine check along Gwagwalada expressway on Monday, April 7.
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