A suspected drug dealer has been arrested after hiding for 13 years.

The suspect was nabbed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency , NDLEA over cocaine and heroin shipments said to be linked to him.

NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, said he was first arrested in 2013 for cocaine trafficking and arraigned before Justice Ayokunle Faji of the Federal High Court, Lagos, in charge number FHC/L/187c/2923.

Babafemi noted that the suspect jumped bail after being released and went underground.

In a related development, NDLEA operatives in Imo State dismantled a clandestine laboratory at Isiozi Obiato, Umuaka, in Njaba Local Government Area, where 18.4kg of methamphetamine, precursor chemicals and production equipment were recovered.

Also At the Seme border, officers intercepted a Togolese woman, Hadiza Musa, who allegedly concealed 5,000 tramadol pills in her luggage. In another operation the same day, operatives recovered 1,040kg of skunk from an uncompleted building at Akodo village, Seaside Eleko, along the Ibeju-Lekki axis.

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