Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Chinese businessman, Liang Tak You, and an 80-year-old grandma, Mrs Grace Ekpeme, during a nationwide interdiction operations leading to the seizure of consignments of Colorado, a synthetic strain of cannabis, hidden in moimoi sachets and Canadian Loud, another strong strain of cannabis, concealed in canned food items imported from Canada.
Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday said Liang was arrested by NDLEA operatives at the arrival hall of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos, on Friday, July 25, 2025, following actionable intelligence.
The suspect, who arrived in Nigeria from Bangkok via Dubai, UAE, on an Emirates Airline flight, is a Chinese national, naturalised and based in Malaysia, but flew to Thailand, where he picked up two suitcases filled with 50 parcels of Loud weighing 26.10kg before heading to Nigeria via the UAE.
Upon his arrival at the Lagos airport, NDLEA operatives tracking his movement from his port of departure allowed him to pass through the necessary protocols before picking him up on his way out of the airport.
According to Babafemi, the octogenarian grandma, Mrs Grace Ekpeme, was arrested at Edet-Nsa street, Base Site, Calabar South, Cross River state, with over 3kg of skunk in the early hours of Saturday, July 26, following intelligence on her drug-dealing activities.
While commending the officers and men of MMIA, Apapa, Lagos, Cross River, Edo, Ondo, Nasarawa, Borno, Niger, Ogun, Gombe, Kaduna and Kogi Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures of the past week, Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), praised their counterparts in all the commands across the country for pursuing a fair balance between their drug supply reduction and drug demand reduction efforts.
