NDLEA Officers Arrest Drug Suspect, Turn Down N10 Million Bribe.
On Sunday, National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency agents said that they declined a N10 million bribe to release Tsolaye Eburajolo, a drug suspect who had been detained earlier in Lagos.
During a 100% joint examination of watch-listed containers with Nigeria Customs Service and other security agency personnel at the Tin Can Port in Lagos and Port Harcourt port, Onne, Rivers State, between October 22 and 23, the NDLEA operatives seized 508,400 bottles of codeine-based syrup and 26,250,000 tramadol pills valued at N16,683,800,000 in street value.
A 40-year-old guy named Eburajolo was taken into custody in Okota, Lagos’ Ago Palace neighbourhood in relation to drugs that the authorities had seized.
Femi Babafemi, the agency’s spokeswoman, said in a statement on Sunday that the exhibits found on the suspect included the bribe promised in exchange for the suspect’s release.
The statement said, “Other illicit consignments intercepted during the joint inspection of the containers include 10 million tablets of Toradol Benzhexol and 28 plastic drums of methamphetamine weighing 700kg at Tincan and Onne respectively, while 56 parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis weighing 28kg, were also recovered from a container that arrived the Lagos port from Canada.”
“A suspect, Tsolaye Eburajolo, 40, was arrested at Ago Palace area of Okota Lagos in connection with the cannabis seizure while a bribe of N10m paid the NDLEA officers to free the suspect has been kept as part of the exhibits for the prosecution of the case.”
According to Babafemi, the NDLEA agents also found 293 ampoules of injections of promethazine and pentazocine, 1.690 kg of cannabis, and tramadol tablets hidden in the soles of shoes and hair attachments that were being shipped to the US, UK, and Oman at three courier companies.
“A total of 2,118 pills of tramadol concealed in soles of 13 pairs of shoes going to Cyprus were seized at the export shed of the Lagos airport on October 12, 2024, and an additional 380 tablets recovered from the home of the sender, Okenwa Kelvin Uchenna, during a follow-up operation in Enugu on Thursday, October 24,” he added.
He reported that giant bags of Ghanaian Loud, a cannabis strain measuring 2,760 kg, were found during an NDLEA raid on the Igbo-Igunuko shrine at Alfa Beach, Ajah, on Friday, October 25.
“Two suspects, Gbenga Abiodun and Sunday Abiodun, were arrested. Another suspect, Ademola Oyelakin, was also arrested the same day with 770kg of the same psychoactive substance along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway, “ he added.
According to Babafemi, 64 bottles of codeine syrup and 11,786 pills of tramadol, molly, Rohypnol, and diazepam were found in the underground storage at the home of Muhammad Abdullahi.
He claimed that in order to prevent being found, Abdullahi dug up his bedroom at Marwa Coastal Road, Lekki Phase 1 Lagos, covered it with a rug and padlocked iron slate, and then placed his mattress on top.
