The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted a large consignment of Canadian Loud, a high-potency strain of cannabis, weighing 4,173.5 kilograms at the Tincan Island Port in Lagos.
The consignment has a street value of N10.4 billion.
The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Wednesday in Abuja.
He said the successful interdiction of the illicit drug consignment followed painstaking intelligence gathering.
This he said included sustained surveillance, and trailing of the container, which was transloaded a number of times since it left Toronto, Canada, on March 28.
Babafemi said: ” The consignment was conveyed through rails to Montreal, where it was loaded on board a vessel, Jakarta express voyage, which arrived at Tanger Med Port in Morocco on April 15.
” It was discharged and reloaded on another vessel, the Osaka voyage, which eventually arrived the Lagos Port on Saturday.
“It took over two months of monitoring the shipment by the Marine Intelligence Unit of NDLEA and the Tincan Island Strategic Command of the agency.
“Operatives worked in close collaboration with international partners particularly the United Kingdom Home Office International Operations, the United States Drug Enforcement Administration, and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.
“These efforts culminated in the eventual seizure of the consignment on Tuesday, May 12 during a joint examination of the container by NDLEA operatives, men of Customs Service and other security agencies.
“The development comes barely four days after NDLEA operatives raided a Lekki mansion used as a stash house where 4,000 parcels of the same psychoactive substance weighing 2,326 kilograms worth over N5.8 billion were recovered.”
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