Lagos businessman, four other kingpins arrested as NDLEA busts trans-border cartel.

Lagos businessman, four other kingpins arrested as NDLEA busts trans-border cartel.

Five kingpins, including a businessman at Alaba international market, Lagos, have been arrested by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).

The suspects, who are said to be leaders of a trans-border drug cartel operating in parts of the world, were arrested in a special operation that lasted weeks.

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday, January 29, said different quantities of skunk, methamphetamine and ephedrine as well as air compressors used to conceal and distribute them globally were recovered during the operation.

According to him, “Leaders of the cartel which spreads across Dubai, UAE; Cotonou, Benin Republic; Togo; Oman, Thailand and Europe as well as Lagos, Imo and Onitsha in Anambra state, had while on Christmas and New Year holidays in their villages were still coordinating efforts to send their illicit consignments to Dubai and other parts of the world.