Two members of an international drug trafficking syndicate: Sunday Michael Owoborode, 52, and Valentine Anene, have been arrested in Ogun State.
Director of Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, confirmed this in a statement he issued on Sunday.
According to Babafemi, Owoborode and Anene were arrested on January 25, 2024 at Edu Orita, Ogun State, where Anene was being prepared to travel with some drugs to Qatar on the same day on board a Qatar airline flight from Lagos.
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At the time of their arrest, 1.8kg cannabis, electronic weighing scale and other illicit substances were found on them.
In another interdiction operation by operatives in Lagos State, a 50-year-old man, Sunday Adediran, was arrested on January 24 with 20kg cannabis sativa found in one of the rooms in his house at Mushin Olosha.
