The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency recovered a significant amount of methamphetamine and “Loud” shipments at the Tincan Seaport in Lagos, which were hidden in automobile spare parts imported from Canada. This seizure followed months of intelligence-driven tracking across three continents.
The intercepted drugs were intended for distribution during the Christmas and New Year festive season. This marked the first time the agency had seized two consignments of methamphetamine weighing a total of 83.301 kilograms. The shipments were bound for warehouses in the Ladipo automobile parts market in Lagos, leading to the arrest of two individuals connected to the illicit cargo.
The methamphetamine consignments had a combined weight of 83.301kg, valued at ₦124,951,000, while the 867.5kg of Loud was estimated to be worth ₦2,168,750,000 in street value. The successful interception of these drugs was the result of meticulous intelligence operations that spanned several months, involving the NDLEA’s Special Operations Units and the Tincan Port Strategic Command.
In a separate incident at the Port Harcourt Port Complex in Rivers State, 636,600 bottles of codeine-based syrup worth ₦4.5 billion were intercepted in shipments from India. The joint examination of four containers by NDLEA officers, Customs officials, and other security agencies led to the seizure of the illicit substance based on credible intelligence.