NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi told Journalists on Wednesday that his operatives came under fire while on the trail of a truck carrying a drug and illicit drug suspects.

The incident occurred on Tuesday on Awolowo road, Ikoyi, Lagos state.

Babafemi said his agents seized the truck and the drug shipment, but security agents escaped with the suspected drug dealer.

“They left with the drug suspect in his vehicle, but we got support from soldiers from nearby military formations, as well as reinforcement from our men from state headquarters,” he said.

“We have the drugs.”

Asked to describe “suspected fake security agents,” Babafemi said that “the reason we call them suspected fake security agents is that no genuine officer paid with taxpayer money will do the kind of things that they are doing by escorting the drug cartels… to escape security scrutiny.”

As a step

According to the News Reporters, NDLEA Lagos State Commander Umar Adoro said the operation was carried out based on intelligence.

“We ambushed the truck. We knew when they finished loading and when they started their movement and we decided to board the truck on the Awolowo road as that would determine whether the drugs were transported to the mainland or abroad,” Adoro told a news conference. on Tuesday.

“We waited until midnight before the truck was sighted and we intercepted it. Unfortunately, we got distracted because when they intercepted the trucker and the vehicle, unidentified security agents appeared and insisted that we had to let the truck continue its movement, we said which way and they couldn’t tell us.

“There was chaos when the security agents started shooting into the air, which attracted the Army of the medical corps. They reinforced our officers before reinforcements arrived from my office.

“But the unidentified security agency took the driver and escaped with him. But we successfully got the truck. The vehicle of our officers that was used to block the truck was damaged by the driver of the truck and unidentified security agents.”

“We knew when they finished loading and when they started their movement and we decided to board the truck on the Awolowo road, as that would determine whether the drugs were transported to the mainland or abroad.”