NDLEA operatives in FCT Abuja in a joint operation with their colleagues in Anambra, have unraveled a syndicate that plants illicit drugs in the luggage of unsuspecting passengers in motor parks.
According to a statement released by NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, their illicit activities came to the fore when operatives in Abuja intercepted a consignment of methamphetamine that weighed 467.7grams, in a Sienna bus coming from Nnewi, Anambra State, at Abaji, FCT, on Saturday, 20th June, 2026.
Babafemi said that during a search of the bus, a waybill package was recovered containing whitish substances suspected to be methamphetamine concealed inside a black nylon bag, which was also put into another sack of clothes with the phone number of the receiver written on it.
‘’A follow up operation conducted same day led to the arrest of the supposed receiver of the waybill Mrs. Gloria Peter at Utako motor park. She, however, vehemently denied knowledge and ownership of the package in her luggage.
This led to a swift arrest of the loaders of the Sienna bus in Nnewi where one of them revealed that the drug package was put into the woman’s bag by him on the directive of the driver of the bus Abdurrazak Isah.
Babafemi said that his revelations made the driver to open up and mentioned one of his passengers, Onyebuchi Victor Okoye, as the actual owner of the drug. Onyebuchi was then picked up at Utako, FCT during another follow up operation.
