NDLEA Intercepts Cocaine Consignments Concealed in Machine Cylinders, Auto Parts at Lagos Airport
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has launched a nationwide crackdown on drug trafficking organisations, with operatives dismantling six key syndicates and seizing tons of illicit drugs, while also arresting nine high-profile kingpins in a string of intelligence-led operations.
According to Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s image maker, in a statement released on Sunday, 23rd November, NDLEA officers apprehended two members of a drug trafficking organization in Onitsha, Anambra state on Tuesday, 18th November 2025, upon their arrival to take delivery of 5.40 kilograms of methamphetamine; 10.70 kilograms of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis; 16 grams of cocaine; 200 grams of phenacetin; 200 grams of methcathinone; and 100 grams of caffeine hidden in pressure machine cylinders imported from South Africa.
The first to show up at a logistics company in Onitsha for the collection of the consignments was 30-year-old electrical appliances dealer Ebulue Lotanwa Uzochukwu who was promptly arrested while shortly after, another member of the syndicate 51-year-old South Africa returnee Christopher Michael Ndibuisi showed up and was equally arrested.
The consignments had arrived the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja-Lagos with airway bill number 118-12882973 arriving from South Africa on a Tag-Angola flight on 13th November 2025 and was immediately seized based on credible intelligence. A follow up sting operation was thereafter organized in Onitsha, Anambra state where the recipients: Uzochukwu and Ndibuisi were arrested.
In another operation at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives on Thursday 20th November intercepted a brake servo automobile part used to conceal 48 pellets and a block of cocaine with a gross weight of 2.30 kilograms packed among other auto parts going to Gabon.
Following the arrest of a freight agent Ameh Solomon who presented the consignment for export, a follow up at ASMPDA market, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo Lagos led to the arrest of an auto parts dealer Nwafor Tochukwu Boniface
