NDLEA Arrests Indian Businessman, 3 Others Over Alleged Trafficking Of N3.9bn Tramadol

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an Indian businessman, Gupta Ravi Kumar, alongside 3 Nigerian accomplices successful transportation with the seizure of 2,248,000 pills of tramadol 200mg/225mg.

Kumar was apprehended alongside Ogunlana Noah Olanrewaju, Olushola Idrees Kayode and Bakare Korede Muheeb astatine the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja Lagos.

The tramadol shipment worthy N3,990,000,000 successful thoroughfare worth was imported from Delhi, India, disguised arsenic multi-vitamins successful 114 cartons and arrived the import shed of the Lagos airdrome connected an connected Ethiopian Airline formation connected Monday 8th September 2025.

NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi said a squad of NDLEA officers who had enactment the consignment nether surveillance, swooped connected a clearing cause and 2 drivers who were trying to determination the shipment retired of the airdrome successful 2 trucks connected Thursday, September 11th.

Babafemi said a follow-up cognition the pursuing day, Friday, led to the apprehension of the Kumar, erstwhile helium was trying to instrumentality transportation of the consignment.

At the Terminal 2 departure of the airport, NDLEA operatives connected Sunday, September 7, intercepted a rider Onyeganochi Stanley Ifeanyi portion travelling connected a Qatar Airline formation to Doha.

“A hunt of his container led to the betterment of 900grams of skunk, a strain of cannabis concealed successful crayfish. As a first-time traveler, Onyeganochi claimed the container was fixed to him to assistance instrumentality to Doha by a Qatar-based Nigerian Ohaodiegwu Anthony Uchenna who really followed him to the airport.

“His confession led to the apprehension of Uchenna who was inactive wrong view. Operatives who aboriginal conducted a hunt of Uchenna’s edifice country successful Ajao Estate discovered further 200grams of the aforesaid psychoactive substance.

“He claimed helium was to instrumentality to Doha days aboriginal and prime the container from the unsuspecting Onyeganochi if helium had succeeded escaping information checks,” the NDLEA said.

Meanwhile, astatine the Tincan Port successful Lagos, a full of 161 parcels of Canadian Loud, a strain of cannabis weighing 81.7kg and 1.2kg hashish lipid were recovered from a 40ft instrumentality of conveyance spare parts and utilized vehicles imported from Montreal Canada during a associated introspection of the shipment connected Tuesday 9th September.

Two suspects including John Ochigbo, 53, and Okeke Kingsley, 26, were arrested successful transportation with the seizure.

Another shipment of Canadian Loud with a full value of 65kg was tracked from the larboard to Third Mainland span wherever NDLEA operatives intercepted a Toyota Sienna conveyance conveying the consignment, recovered it and arrested the operator Abubakar Ibrahim, 42 connected Thursday 11th September.

Two abstracted shipments of methamphetamine concealed successful representation framework and Loud, hidden successful video players were seized astatine 2 courier companies successful Lagos connected Monday 8th and Thursday 11th September respectively by NDLEA operatives.