Nigeria’s anti-drug agency said it had dismantled a methamphetamine syndicate in the largest seizure of \u200bits kind in the country, seizing drugs and chemicals \u200cworth about $363 million and arresting 10 suspects, including three Mexicans.<\/p>\n
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said late on Wednesday that coordinated raids on \u200ba farm in Ogun state and linked properties \u200bin Lagos state, southwest Nigeria, uncovered an industrial-scale clandestine \u2060laboratory and yielded 2.4 tons of methamphetamine and chemical materials.<\/p>\n
NDLEA \u200bchief Mohamed Buba Marwa said the operation, carried out over \u200b48 hours after months of intelligence work, exposed a network importing foreign “technical expertise” to produce drugs locally.<\/p>\n
Seven suspects, including three Mexicans described as \u200bmeth “cooks”, were arrested at the farm used as a lab \u200bin Ogun state’s Abidagba forest, while the alleged mastermind, Anochili Innocent, a \u200cNigerian, \u2060was detained at his Lagos residence. Follow-up operations brought total arrests to 10, the agency said.<\/p>\n
The agency said the scale of the haul, equivalent to millions of street doses, highlighted \u200ba shift by \u200bdrug cartels \u2060towards setting up production bases in Nigeria.<\/p>\n
The crackdown underscores Nigeria’s growing role as both a \u200btransit and manufacturing hub in the global illegal \u200bdrugs \u2060trade.<\/p>\n
Illegal trade has been growing in Nigeria and West Africa, where porous borders allow cartels to expand logistics networks and links \u2060to \u200bLatin American trafficking groups.<\/p>\n
Marwa said the agency \u200bwill step up its crackdown on local and transnational networks across the \u200bcountry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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