Update:NDLEA arrests Lagos billionaire drug baron, Ugochukwu Chukwukadibia in VGC

Update: NDLEA arrests Lagos billionaire drug baron, Ugochukwu Chukwukadibia in VGC

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) seized a large consignment of drugs worth N8,860,000,000 from one of the mansions of a billionaire drug baron, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, in the affluent residential estate of Victoria Garden City, Lekki, Lagos.

Hundreds of cartons containing the substances are kept in a house in Victoria Garden City (VGC).

Femi Babafemi, the NDLEA’s Director of Media, announced this in a statement on Monday.

According to Babafemi, NDLEA operatives stormed the 52-year-old billionaire drug kingpin’s home on Plot A45 Road 2 last Friday after receiving credible intelligence.

The statement read in part, “No less than N13,451,466 pills of Tramadol 225mg worth N8,860,000,000 in street value have been recovered by operatives of the National Drug Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, from one of the mansions of a billionaire drug baron, Ugochukwu Nsofor Chukwukadibia, in the highbrow residential estate, Victoria Garden City (VGC), Lekki area of Lagos.

“The arrest of Ugochukwu, who is the Chairman of Autonation Motors Ltd, is coming barely two months after NDLEA uncovered a methamphetamine clandestine laboratory in the residence of another drug kingpin in the estate, Chris Emeka Nzewi, who was arrested on Saturday 30th July along with a chemist, Sunday Ukah, who cooked the illicit drug for him. At least 258.74 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine and various precursor chemicals used for the production of the toxic drug were recovered from Nzewi’s home during his arrest.

“Following credible intelligence, NDLEA operatives on Friday 30th September stormed the Plot A45 Road 2 home of the 52-year-old billionaire drug kingpin. A search of the expansive mansion led to the discovery of 443 cartons of Tramadol Hydrochloride 225mg, which contains 13,451,466 pills of the drug while some cartons were already burnt in a fire incident in the house the same day.”

Before his arrest, Chukwukadibia, from Anambra State’s Ihiala Local Government Area, was on the NDLEA’s watch list as a member of the tramadol drug cartel in Nigeria.