By Evelyn Usman
The trial of 10 defendants in the alleged ₦480 billion clandestine methamphetamine factory case resumed yesterday, with the Federal High Court conducting a locus in quo at the suspected illicit drug laboratory in LOgun State.
The inspection, led by Justice Musa Kakaki, took the court, prosecution and defence teams round the sprawling industrial facility where the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, alleged methamphetamine was produced for distribution outside Nigeria.
At the scene, the prosecution resumed the examination of its first witness, Mr. Ajilema Anebi, a laboratory expert with the NDLEA, who identified the alleged clandestine methamphetamine production facility, as well as several chemicals and industrial equipment recovered during the Agency’s operation.
The witness told the court that the laboratory, where the second to the eighth defendants were arrested, had the capacity to produce large quantities of methamphetamine intended for export.
