Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa (rtd), Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, disclosed the details of the operation at a news conference in Lagos. He revealed that the illicit Class A drugs, totaling 51.90kg, were carefully packaged, well-labeled, and concealed inside cutting machines intended for delivery at the cartel’s warehouse in the Ipaja area of the state.
The seized drugs, with a street value of £100,000 per kilo, amounted to a total worth of £5,190,000 (equivalent to N10,365,987,000 at the exchange rate of N1,997.3/£), according to The Nation. Marwa highlighted the similarity between this seizure and last year's Ikorodu seizure, which was also the highest single interception of cocaine by the agency. He described the steps taken by the operatives and emphasized the crucial role played by the agency’s sniffer dogs in uncovering the crime.
Marwa stated that the NDLEA had contacted its counterpart in South Africa to apprehend the leaders of the cartel, who are residents in that country and Mozambique.
