The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 1.63 million pills of tramadol concealed in specially fabricated compartments of two long trailers and arrested members of a transnational drug trafficking syndicate operating along the Togo-Benin Republic-Nigeria corridor.
The agency added that the intelligence-led operation followed the seizure of 558,900 tramadol pills concealed in a truck that entered Nigeria through the same route barely a week earlier.
According to a statement on Sunday by the NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, one of the trailers was intercepted on July 2 along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway while heading to Kano.
He explained that operatives recovered 853,000 pills of tramadol (250mg) concealed beneath the cargo floor of the trailer and arrested its 22-year-old driver, Jabir Kabiru.
“Ongoing efforts to dismantle a transnational drug trafficking syndicate smuggling tramadol from Togo, through the Benin Republic, into Nigeria have yielded another success with the interception of two long trailers used to move 1,630,000 pills of tramadol 250mg concealed in fabricated compartments of the trucks across multiple borders into Lagos.
