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Speaker 1: Authority in Nigeria, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLA,

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has arrested three kinkins operating an international criminal network between Nigeria, Brazil, Australia,

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United Kingdom and United Arab Emirates and seized cocaine worth

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over five point three million dollars Australian dollars with a

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Nira equivalent of five point three billion nyras NYRA. According

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to ndl EA, some of the arrested leaders of the

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international criminal gang have served jail terms previously in the

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United Kingdom for murder and illicit drug related business. In

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the details of the report below, NDLA also reported that

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its men intercepted one point one billion nira’s worth of

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codeine consignment in Rivers State recovered over six hundred fifty

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three kilograms collos allowed in Lagos. Abouja raids, an international

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organized criminal group IOCG operating between Nigeria, UK, Brazil, Australia

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and the United Arab Emirate has been smashed by operatives

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of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency ndl EA, who

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in a two week long intelligence led operations across parts

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of Lagos arrested three leaders of the cartel after intercepting

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large consignment of cocaine concealed in textile materials and local

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charms going to Sydney, Australia at the Mattala Mohammad International

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Airport m MIA a Keja, Lagos. The unraveling of the

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drug syndicate began on Tuesday, the twenty sixth of August

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twenty twenty five, after NDL EA offices at the export

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shed of the Lagos Airport intercepted seventy six cartoons of

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textile materials going to Sydney, Australia. A thorough search of

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the shipment led to the recovery of sixteen big blocks

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of cocaine weighing seventeen point nine kilograms hidden in the

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lace materials, parked with local charms to provide spiritual cover

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against law enforcement. Today, a freight agent and member of

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the syndicate, Alasupo Michael Olademeggi, was the first to be arrested.

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The consignment was expected to fetch the syndicate an estimated

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street value of over five point three million Australian dollars

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equivalent of five point three billion nyers. Fast paced investigation

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of the operations of the IOCG quickly unmasked other leaders

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of the group Muayezi, Adamola Ogenbee and Schola Adegoke. Ogenbi,

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who is the arrowhead of the syndicate in Nigeria, was

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arrested at a hotel in a Keja Gra on Wednesday,

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the third of September and swiftly taken to his house

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in Lecky area of Legos, where a search led to

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the recovery of twenty one parcels of Canadian laud a

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strain of cannabis with a total weight of ten point

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nine o kilograms and a double barreled pump action gun

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with some cartridges. A house located at thirteen Reverend Oganbye Street,

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a Keja Gra, where the criminal group used to package

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illicit drugs for export, was subsequently raided and another leader

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of the syndicate, Schuler Adegoke, arrested there. A black Range

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Rover SUV marked RBC four hundred and fifty nine e

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J found in the compound was searched and seventeen parcels

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of landweighing nine point six ozero kilograms were recovered. A

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black Toyota Venza car with registration number f ST seven

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hundred and seventy one JQ was earlier recovered from Ogenbee

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at the point of his arrest at the hotel. Investigations

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revealed that while Ogenbee coordinates operations for the group in Nigeria,

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one Adebisi Adamola Omiena Mister B who is currently hibernating

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in Dubai, UAE, is identified as the ringleader of the

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criminal network who coordinates their overseas operations. Schuler Adegoke was

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found to have been jailed in the UK in twenty

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twenty one for dealing in methamphetamine and subsequently deported to

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Nigeria in twenty five twenty four. OGENB was also found

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to have served a fourteen year jail term in the

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UK over a murder case before returning to Nigeria about

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eight years ago. Meanwhile, a Milan, Italy based Nigerian, Gabriel Michael,

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was on Friday the fifth of September arrested by NDLEA

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operatives at the departure hall of Terminal one of the

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Lagos Airport while attempting to board an Air France flight

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to Italy. He was found to have concealed a total

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of twenty four thousand, four hundred and eighty pills of

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tramadol one hundred milligrams, two hundred milligrams and two hundred

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and twenty five milligrams, which he claimed he was going

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to sell for nineteen thousand, five hundred and twenty euros.

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A total of one hundred and sixty thousand, two hundred

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bottles of codine based syrup were discovered in a forty

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feet contained during a joint examination of the shipment by

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NDLEA Offices and men of Nigeria Customs and other security

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Agencies at the West Africa conte A Terminal WACT Port

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Harcourt Ports Complex on a River’s State on Thursday, the

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fourth of September. The container, which has two hundred and

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twenty cartons of ceramic sanitary wares used as cover for

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the codeine syrup, was one of the shipments watch listed

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and tracked by a special operations unit of NDLA. While

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the illicit consignment has an estimated street value of over

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one point one billion nyers. In the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja,

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NDLA operatives on a stop and search operation on Thursday

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the fourth of September arrested a dispatch rider, Joel Bernard,

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thirty two, in Guarimpa area of the FCT while conveying

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three point one kilograms Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis.

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In Lagos, NDLA operatives acting on credible intelligence on Monday,

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the first of September arrested the duo of Tunde Ainler

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forty seven and on a walle O Motare fifty four

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while loading four distribution vehicles at their twenty eight Oler Street,

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a Jesha Soilere home. Recovered from him include nine kilograms

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of Canadian laud, five kilograms of Colorado, and one thousand,

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one hundred and one compressed blocks of Ghana Laud weighing

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six hundred and eleven kilograms, bringing the total weight of

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the combined siezures to six hundred and twenty five kilograms.

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In another raid in Lagos, operatives on Friday, the fifth

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of September arrested a couple Andy David forty three and

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Andy est forty four with twenty four point four kilograms

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of skunk, a strain of cannabis, recovered from their home

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in ajagun Lay area of the state, while forty five

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year old Musa Iso was arrested with fifty three point

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four to ozoo kilograms skunk concealed in two cartons in

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the trunk of his Toyota avansis car marked ABC three

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hundred and thirty eight s S in Coggi State, UNUSA.

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Zachary twenty three was nabbed in a follow up operation

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in Auchi, Edo State on Friday the fifth of September,

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in connection with the earlier seizure of two hundred and

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thirty three kilograms skunk in Carco, Kaduna State. Not less

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than eleven thousand pills of tramadol were recovered from a

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suspect to euk Nelson twenty eight when he was arrested

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by ndl EA operatives on Wednesday the third of September

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at sixty one Bidda Road, annischa A, Nambra State, just

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as operatives on patrol along Minna Bidder Road, Niger State

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on Tuesday the second of September intercepted a white Toyota

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Hilix vehicle. A search led to the seizure of thirty

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bags of skunk weighing three hundred and forty two kilograms,

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while the driver, afelain Iadelee fifty four, conveying the consignment,

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was arrested in Taraba State, a total of eighteen thousand,

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seven hundred and fifty kilograms of skunk were destroyed on

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seven point five hectares of cannabis plantations at jiro Adi Village,

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Ardo Kola Local Government Area on Tuesday, the second of September.

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Owners of the two farms, Maco Zenmar fifty five and

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Sani Titis forty five were arrested during the operation. Across

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the country, NDLA commands continued their war against drug abuse

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WADA sensitization lectures and advocacy visits to worship centers, workplaces,

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palaces of traditional rulers and communities all through the past week.

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Instances include WADA sensitization lecture to offices and men of

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the Nigerian Correctional Service Lafia, Nasarawa State, wardheads in Karno

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Municipal Council, Karno State and members of Traditional Medicine Practitioners

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Association Orgu Local Government Area a Nambra State, while the

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Coggi States Strategic Command of NDLA paid a WADA advocacy

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visit to the Ohi of Ihima and Chairman Okahei Local

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Government Area, ansel of traditional rulers. His Royal Highness Al

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Haji Abdul rah Mahmadogido, among others, while commending the offices

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and men of mm I, A, PHPC, LEGOS, FCT Anambra, Taraba, Kaduna,

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Koggi and Niger Commands of the agency for the arrests

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and sieges of the past week. Chairman Chief Executive Officer

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of ndl EA, Brigadier General Mohammad Babamawa retired and joined

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them and their colleagues across the country to intensify the

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ongoing balance to approach to the drug control efforts of

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the agency. Femi Babafemi, Director Media an Advocacy ndl EA,

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stated this on Sunday, the seventh of September twenty twenty five.

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Quindi Uini in Amgi