The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has found opioids worth over N5 billion in a warehouse in the Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos.

In a statement on Sunday, the agency revealed how the drugs were confiscated in addition to those found in six other states.

“Operatives of the NDLEA, at the weekend, busted another tramadol cartel in Lagos with the seizure of millions of opioid pills and bottles worth over five billion naira (N5billion) from their warehouse in the Amuwo Odofin area of the state and arrest of two of the kingpins,” the statement read in part.

“This is even as anti-narcotics officers of the agency also uncovered and dismantled a clandestine skuchies laboratory in a remote part of Sagamu, Ogun State, where several equipment and various quantities of illicit substances used to mass-produce the dangerous new psychoactive substance were recovered on Saturday 14th January 2023.”

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The drug law enforcement agents had intercepted an imported consignment of Loud, a strong variant of cannabis, weighing 4,878.72 kilograms along Awolowo road, Ikoyi, Lagos, on Tuesday.

Another 121,630 pills of pharmaceutical opioids and some quantity of Molly were seized from one Charles Okeke, a drug dealer, in the Idumota area of Lagos Island, on Wednesday. On Friday, a major warehouse for pharmaceutical opioids was found at 17 Sir Ben Onyeka street, off Ago Palace Way, in the Amuwo Odofin area of Lagos. The enforcement agents detained Aloysius Okeke, the store keeper.

“Illicit drugs recovered from the warehouse include: three million two hundred and sixty-four thousand six hundred and thirty (3,264,630) pills of tramadol; three thousand four hundred and ninety (3,490) bottles of codeine and nine hundred and fifteen thousand (915,000) capsules of pregabalin 300mg,” NDLEA stated on Sunday.

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NDLEA claimed that it had discovered and dismantled a laboratory where skuchies, a highly potent psychoactive substance made with a blend of cannabis, tramadol, rohypnol, exol-5 and industrial codeine, was being produced in large quantities, packaged and distributed in jerry cans and bottles, on Saturday.

Olarenwaju Lawal Wahab, a drug transporter, was also arrested when NDLEA found 14,690 bottles of codeine-based syrup, 402,500 tablets of tramadol 250mg, 50,000 tablets of Tramadol 225mg and 210,000 capsules of pregabalin 300mg in his white bus. NDLEA claimed Wahab worked with the drug cartel responsible for the opioids found in Lagos.