The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) caught multibillion-naira worth of cocaine concealed in heavy-duty automotive pivot shafts and Ghanaian fabric, Kente, in a nationwide intelligence-led operation by Agency operatives.

In a statement signed by the agency’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, 2.32 kilograms of cocaine concealed in Ghanaian traditional kente materials going to the United Kingdom were intercepted at a courier firm in Lagos on Monday 5th August 2024, while 10.494kg of the same class A drug buried in heavy duty pivot shafts heading to the United States were recovered at the same logistics company after the NDLEA sniffer dogs fished out the automobile spare parts containing the illicit dr

The statement added that five other consignments containing 517 grams of cocaine concealed in clothing materials; various quantities of pentazocine injection, promethazine injection, and cocodamol pills, all bound for the United Kingdom; and 297 tramadol 225mg pills bound for Canada were intercepted at a courier firm in Lagos on Friday, August 9, 2024.

On August 8, 2024, NDLEA operatives arrested 49-year-old Joseph Peter with 425 compressed blocks of cannabis sativa weighing 291.200kg in his Toyota Camry car marked Lagos KSF 381 HM, which he claimed he was transporting from Edo state to deliver in Yola, Adamawa State.