…Arrests billionaire drug baron
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, (NDLEA), has said it has uncovered a large consignment of drugs worth N8.86billion from one of the mansions of the Chairman of AutoNation Motors Ltd, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, in a highbrow residential estate in Lekki area of Lagos.
The substances are contained in hundreds of cartons kept in a house in Victoria Garden City (VGC) estate, which is mostly occupied by the rich, located along the Lekki-Ajah corridor.
In an issued statement released yesterday by the agency’s Director of Media, Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA said the “massive and beautiful” building was used to “warehouse over 13 million pills of Tramadol 225mg” by a drug baron, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, whom it described as one of the leaders of the cartel behind Nigeria’s tramadol drug importation.
According to Babafemi, NDLEA operatives had last Friday stormed Plot A45 Road 2, home of the 52-year-old billionaire drug kingpin, following credible intelligence.
Before his arrest, Chukwukadibia, who hails from the Ihiala local government area of Anambra State, had been on NDLEA’s watch list as one of those behind the tramadol drug cartel in Nigeria.
The bust adds to the long list of successes recorded by the anti-drug agency in recent months. Recall that on September 19, the NDLEA seized 1.8 tonnes of cocaine worth “N194 billion” in Lagos. The drugs were discovered in a warehouse in the Ikorodu area of the State.
Babafemi had said the development “appears to be the biggest singular cocaine seizure” in the agency’s history.
