Richard Forson Gordon, a 55-year-old Ghanaian who worked as the drug dealer's warehouse keeper, was detained even though the fleeing drug dealer is still at large and on the agency's wanted list.
Ibrahim Momoh was first detained on November 27, 2014, with the same drug, which weighed 385.1kg. He was later charged, found guilty, and given a seven and a half-year prison sentence on April 22, 2020, but he managed to escape after just three months.
Meanwhile, on Friday, December 2, near the Lokoja-Abuja road, authorities detained over 2,000 bottles of syrup with codeine.
On Tuesday, November 29, Ondo state police recovered 241 bags of the psychoactive narcotic totaling 3,133 kg from a structure at Ilale Cashew, Ehinogbe, Owo. On Thursday, December 1st, a raid at the hideout of a running drug dealer in Lagos' Mushin neighbourhood netted at least 507,9 kg of cannabis.
Operatives also detained Ali Mohammed along Potiskum- Damaturu road after discovering 29,090 tramadol tablets in his personal Honda car with the licence plate ABC 914 RW travelling from Gombe to Damaturu. In Cross River, 53 jumbo bags of C/S weighing 567.05kgs were seized from three suspects: Bassey Boniface Eyibio, 38; Effiong Akiba Etim, 30; and Ngbong Raymond
Gen. Marwa praised the officers and personnel of the MMIA, Rivers, Ondo, Lagos, Cross River, and Yobe Commands of the Agency and issued a charge to them and their counterparts in other formations to continue stepping up their offensives against drug cartels while also praising the arrests and seizures.