The agency busted the multi-million-dollar clandestine narcotics production network and seized illicit drugs and precursor chemicals valued at over $360 million.
President Bola Tinubu has raised an alarm over the expanding footprint of international drug cartels in West Africa, warning that the sub-region is fast mutating into a major global corridor for the illicit narcotics trade.
Tinubu’s warning comes on the heels of a massive raid by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), which dismantled a large transnational methamphetamine production network operating between Nigeria and Mexico, in what it described as its biggest laboratory bust to date, with arrests spanning a cartel boss, three Mexican nationals, and six Nigerian collaborators.
The agency busted the multi-million-dollar clandestine narcotics production network and seized illicit drugs and precursor chemicals valued at over $360 million.
Reacting to the development, President Tinubu, in a statement on his official X (formerly Twitter) handle, declared that the country's security and the future of its youth are under direct threat from narco-traffickers.
