October 21, 2022
The Nigeria Security and Civil Defence Corps (NSCDC), Lagos Command, has intercepted 101 bags of hard drugs suspected to be Cannabis Sativa, worth N64 million on high sea close to Ibeshe waters in the State.
The NSCDC Lagos Commandant, Mr Okoro Eweka, while addressing newmen on Friday in Lagos, said the Nigeria bound illicit drugs were conveyed in a Cotonou Boat by some Ghanaians.
Explaining further, Eweka said on Friday at about 2 a.m, the conmand’s anti- vandal team, acting on credible intelligence, intercepted a Cotonou boat on high sea close to the waterway.
“On sighting NSCDC gunboat, the occupants screamed and dived into the sea.
“Our team did not want to shoot but, however, drove the boat to the defence jetty in ijora at 11 a.m. on the date,” Okoro said.
The NSCDC Lagos boss said that the corps would work harder to prevent the lives of Nigerians from being ruined by Illinious act of some neighbouring countries.
He said the popular slogan of NSCDC that “the corps will do good thing to good people and bad thing to bad people”, remained.
Eweka said: “It may interest you that the suspected Cannabis Sativa came into Nigeria from Ghana,
“This is evidenced by the unique nature of the stuffs in pawpaw and bible shape.
“This Ghana specie intoxicates highly and this is the reason they referred to it as ‘loud’ in local parlance,” he said.
Eweka pleaded with Ghanian Government to discourage its nationals from flooding Nigeria with hard drugs.
He reiterated that NSCDC would not compromise its standard by allowing such evil products to escape through its security routes.
“Meanwhile, I want to reiterate that the 9 Ghanaians arrested and paraded in February by the command had been delligently prosecuted by NDLEA and sentenced to jail on Oct. 14,”
“Based on this performance, the command would hand over the exhibt to NDLEA,” he said. (NAN)
