International drug cartels invading Ogun, Oyo forests with industrial meth labs — NDLEA

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, has raised the alarm implicit attempts by planetary cause cartels to found concern cause accumulation bases wrong forests successful Ogun and Oyo states.

The bureau disclosed that Mexican-linked transgression networks are collaborating with Nigerian syndicates to acceptable up large-scale methamphetamine laboratories hidden heavy wrong forests.

The Director of Media and Advocacy of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known connected Thursday during an interrogation connected Eagle 102.5 FM, Ilese-Ijebu, monitored by DAILY POST successful Abeokuta.

Babafemi said the bureau has uncovered respective attempts by overseas transgression elements to penetrate Nigeria’s illicit cause market, forcing operatives to instrumentality the conflict straight to their wood hideouts.

According to him, caller intelligence-led operations led to the find of meth labs successful forests successful Ogun and Oyo states, portion a akin cognition successful Ebonyi State besides resulted successful arrests.

“We’ve seen precocious the collaboration betwixt the Nigerian-Mexican cartels trying to person methamphetamine laboratories successful the forests of Ogun and Oyo states, and conscionable a fewer days ago, we had 1 again successful Ebonyi State, and those down that person been rounded up,” Babafemi said.

He noted that the suspects arrested successful transportation with ...