The owners of these two illicit meth laboratories were successfully arrested alongside Sunday Ukah from Aba, Abia State, the cook or chemist that produced the drugs for them. “The first one, located in Victoria Garden City (VGC) Estate of Lekki, Lagos, is owned by a baron, Chris Emeka Nzewi, while the second, in Nise Community of Awka South Local Government Area of Anambra State was owned by Paul Ozoemenam. The suspects said to be operating a meth lab inside a building in VGC estate, Lagos. “I am pleased to inform the public today that, after months of painstaking intelligence gathering, diligent tracking and coordinated offensive action, we recorded a breakthrough on Saturday, July 30, 2022, when officers and men of the Agency successfully busted two methamphetamine manufacturing facilities, called Meth Laboratories.
“This no doubt is a loud statement to those involved in the criminal illicit drug trade that its time for them to quit or risk losing it all that is losing their freedom, investment and assets acquired through proceeds from the illegal business. “Now, we have added two barons and another cook,” he said. Marwa said while efforts in the past seven months against the cartel behind the Methamphetamine scourge, have led to the arrest of four kingpins and a cook. READ ALSO: Nine Convicted For Cyber-Fraud In Ibadan Marwa said following the outbreak of crystal methamphetamine abuse in the last quarter of 2021, predominantly in the South East and the cry for help from many communities in the region because of the devastating effects the distribution and abuse of the dangerous stimulant drug were having on their youths and others, the Agency deployed all available assets to find the primary source of manufacturing of the drug in Nigeria and arrest the barons behind it. Speaking in a press conference on Tuesday, Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA, Mohamed Buba Marwa, said another meth lab had also been busted in Anambra. VGC is one of the affluent estates that dot Lagos State. The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on Tuesday said it had busted a crystal methamphetamine (Mkpuru Mmiri) lab in the Victoria Garden City (VGC) Estate of Lekki, Lagos.Ī document had been circulating online about the discovery, drawing surprise from many netizens.
The NDLEA on August 2, 2022, said the pictured house was found to have been converted into a meth lab.