Failed Land-border Crossing: NDLEA Smashes Drug Cartel Run By Couple

A drug cartel, run by a couple, Bolanle Lookman Dauda and Olayinka Toheebat Dauda has been smashed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), leading to the haul of illicit drugs.
They were nabbed by NDLEA with the support of Drug Enforcement Administration of the United States at Ibiye, along Lagos-Badagry expressway while attempting to cross the land border to deliver the consignment in Ghana.

A multi-billion-naira worth of illicit drugs was recovered from them in two major operations following the arrest of the kingpin and his queen in one of the intelligence-led raids.

The operation on Saturday 25, May 2024 was along Lagos-Badagry expressway while they were attempting to cross the land border to deliver the consignment in Ghana.

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42 blocks of the Class A drug weighing 47.5 kilograms were found on them, with a swift follow-up operation in their residence at Plot 24/25 OPIC extension, Petedo road, Agbara, Ogun state, leading to the recovery of additional eight blocks of the same drug weighing 10kg, bringing the total weight of the cocaine seized from the couple to 57.5 kilograms.
A release by the NDLEA said another raid by the special operation unit, netted no fewer than 1,100 ampoules of lethal synthetic opioid, fentanyl, weighing 6.48kg were recovered from a member of a drug cartel led by 34-year-old Ikeh Stanley Ifeanyi at the popular Idumota market in Lagos Island.

No less than 790 ampoules of the dangerous opioid weighing 5.273kg were equally seized from another member of the fentanyl syndicate, 48-year-old Chieze Ogechukwu Benjamin who was also arrested at Idumota market.

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Fentanyl, a lethal synthetic opioid, which is 100 times more potent than heroin is currently responsible for over 70% overdose deaths as well as a major contributor to fatal and nonfatal overdoses in the US.

Two other persons: Olayiwola Aremu Kazeem, 37, and Ogunfowora Taofik Ajibola, 35, were arrested on Lagos Island in a different raid by NDLEA officers with 432 grams of methamphetamine recovered from them, the agency informed.