– Nabs businesswoman, Chadian, couple, others in Edo, Kogi, Rivers operations
Michael Olugbode in Abuja
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted two trailers conveying a total of 1.63 million pills of tramadol 250mg concealed in fabricated compartments and destined for Kano State, as the agency intensified its crackdown on a transnational drug trafficking syndicate operating along the Togo–Benin Republic–Nigeria corridor.
The latest seizures came barely a week after NDLEA operatives recovered 558,900 pills of tramadol 250mg from the false bottom of another truck that entered Lagos through the same route.
The first of the two latest consignments, comprising 853,000 pills, was intercepted on July 2 along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway after the trailer was tracked while heading to Kano.
