Lucky Obukohwo, Reporting
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), said men of its operatives have arrested a Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, and an 80-year-old grandmother, Mrs Grace Ekpeme, in nationwide interdiction operations that led to the seizure of consignments of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis hidden in moimoi sachets, and Canadian Loud, another strong strain of cannabis concealed in canned food items imported from Canada.
The NDLEA said Liang was arrested by operatives at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos on Friday, July 25, 2025, based on actionable intelligence.
According to the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, the suspect, who arrived in Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE, on an Emirates Airline flight, is a Chinese national, naturalised and based in Malaysia, but flew to Thailand where he picked up two suitcases filled with 50 parcels of Loud weighing 26.10kg before heading to Nigeria via UAE.
Upon his arrival at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives, who were tracking his movement from his port of departure, allowed him to pass through necessary protocols before picking him up on his way out of the airport.
On the octogenarian grandmother, Mrs Grace Ekpeme, she was arrested at Edet-Nsa Street, Base Site, Calabar South, Cross River State, with over 3kg of skunk in the early hours of Saturday, July 26, following intelligence on her drug-dealing activities.
While lauding the officers and men of MMIA, Apapa, Lagos, Cross River, Edo, Ondo, Nasarawa, Borno, Niger, Ogun, Gombe, Kaduna, and Kogi Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
