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The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a drug syndicate chief, recognized as Tianzhen Yen (alias Jackie) within the Ikeja space of Lagos State.
The 58-year-old Chinese language man was arrested in a lodge behind Alade market, Allen Avenue, Ikeja.
In a press release on Sunday, the company’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi stated the drug lord was arrested with 4.3grams of cocaine; a gram of methamphetamine; two digital weighing scales; and a Chinese language Nationwide Identification Quantity Card, amongst others.
“A drug syndicate operated by a Chinese language man, 58-year-old Tianzhen Yen (alias Jackie) has been dismantled by NDLEA operatives following his arrest at his lodge in Ikeja space of Lagos.
“Officers of the Seme Particular Space Command of the Company had on Thursday twenty first November intercepted a 40-year-old suspect, Yakubu Emmanuel Mark in a business bus going to Ghana on the Gbaji checkpoint alongside Badagry-Seme expressway primarily based on credible intelligence.
“When he was searched, a complete of 750grams of cocaine had been present in his bag. A swift follow-up operation was organized to hint and arrest the kingpin behind the trans-border drug trafficking syndicate, who turned out to be a Chinese language citizen, Tianzhen Yen.
“He was ultimately traced to MC Resort behind Alade market, Allen Avenue, Ikeja, Lagos. When his lodge room was searched, 4.3grams of cocaine; a gram of methamphetamine; two digital weighing scales; and Chinese language Nationwide Identification Quantity Card, amongst different reveals had been recovered whereas he was arrested within the neighborhood of the lodge.
“On the Tincan seaport in Lagos, NDLEA operatives on Friday twenty second November intercepted 92 parcels of Loud, an artificial pressure of hashish with a mixed weight of 23.25kg hid in two automobiles imported from Canada: a Nissan automotive and a GMC bus.
“The invention was made throughout a joint examination of a container from Canada by NDLEA officers, males of the Nigeria Customs Service (NCS) and different stakeholders.
“In Rivers state, NDLEA operatives on the Port Harcourt Ports advanced, Onne, on Thursday twenty first November intercepted two containers of imported opioids throughout a joint examination with males of Customs Service and different safety companies.
“A complete of 168,000 bottles of codeine primarily based syrup price One Billion One Hundred and Seventy Six Million Naira (N1,176,000,000) solely in road worth, had been recovered from one of many containers whereas the second accommodates 4 Million 5 Hundred Thousand (4,500,000) drugs of tremendous royal tramadol 225mg valued at Three Billion One Hundred and Fifty Million Naira (N3,150,000,000) solely, bringing the mixed worth of each the codeine and tramadol consignments to 4 Billion Three Hundred and Twenty Six Million Naira (N4,326,000,000) solely.
“In Ekiti state, NDLEA operatives on Sunday seventeenth November arrested a 50-year-old bodily challenged lady, Mustapha Boja, with 286 grams of Colorado and Loud strains of hashish at Araromi road, Ikere-Ekiti, whereas 64kg of hashish sativa was recovered at Akinyele motor park, Ibadan, Oyo state on Thursday twenty first November.
“Not lower than 1,200.5 kilograms of identical psychoactive substance had been seized throughout raids by NDLEA officers in components of Edo state.
“At Utese forest in Ovia North East LGA, 463.5kg was recovered on Thursday twenty first November; whereas 507kg was seized at a compound in Owan village, Ovia LGA the place the duo of David Ojo Ederin, 60, and Afoje Frank, 24, had been arrested on Friday twenty second November. One other suspect, Godwin Okhoya, 40, was nabbed with 230kg of identical substance at Okpuje, Owan West LGA.
“In Kano, 4 suspects: Usman Sani, 25; Abdul Mohd, 28; Bunu Ali,27; and Umar Musa, 30, had been on Tuesday nineteenth November arrested by NDLEA operatives at Gadar Tamburawa, Zaria- Kano street, with 100 blocks of hashish weighing 45kg, whereas Ayuba Umar Zaranda, 55, was nabbed with 124kg hashish at Pengana village, Toro LGA, Bauchi state.”
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