The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency during the previous week intensified its crackdown on drug trafficking, raiding a Lagos hotel, intercepting international consignments concealed in food items, and apprehending a long-wanted drug kingpin.

During one of the operations, 60-year-old Okpara Chigozie, a major drug cartel leader who had evaded arrest since 2019, was nabbed.

A statement released by the NDLEA’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that the operatives nabbed him at his hideout on Michael Ojo Street, Isheri, Ojo, Lagos, following the interception of a white Toyota Sienna van carrying his illicit cargo.

Babafemi said the vehicle, heading to Onitsha, Anambra State, was stopped at Ilasamaja on the Apapa-Oshodi Expressway.