Drug Trafficking: 3 blind men arrested as NDLEA seizes N13bn drugs in Lagos

The agency also arrested no fewer than 10 suspects among which were three blind men and one businessman among others, for allegedly trafficking drugs.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.

The spokesperson disclosed that the tramadol pills and bottles of codeine syrup were discovered following raids of different hideouts of drug cartels in Amuwo Odofin, Surulere, and Skyway Aviation Handling Company warehouse at the Lagos airport in the state.

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He stated, “No less than Fourteen Million, Four Hundred and Eighty-One Thousand, Five Hundred and Nineteen (14, 481, 519) pills of tramadol and bottles of codeine syrup worth over Thirteen Billion Naira (N13,000,000,000) in street value have been recovered by operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in three major busts of drug cartels operating in Amuwo Odofin, Idumota and the SAHCO shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos.