The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted 8,287 nylon bags of substance suspected to be Canadian Loud worth over N10.3 billion and weighing 4,143.5 Kilogrammes at the Apapa seaport in Lagos.
NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi said this on Sunday in Abuja.
Babafemi said the drugs were discovered in a container imported from Canada during a joint examination of the shipment by NDLEA officers, Customs personnel and other security agencies on July 10.
He said the discovery followed weeks of targeted tracking and monitoring of the shipment since its departure from Montreal, Canada, by operatives of the Maritime Intelligence Unit of NDLEA.
According to him, this was in close collaboration with the Apapa Strategic Command of the agency.
He also said the NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operation and General Investigation (DOGI) foiled an attempt by a drug trafficker to export a 2.5-Kilo Gramme of substance suspected to be skunk, a strain of cannabis.
“The drugs were concealed in a gas compressor going to Cyprus through a courier company in Lagos,” he said.
