Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have uncovered a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in Isiozi Obiato, Umuaka, in the Njaba Local Government Area of Imo State.
The agency said eighteen point four kilograms of methamphetamine, large quantities of precursor chemicals and equipment used for the production of the illicit substance were recovered during the operation.
The development was disclosed in a statement on Sunday by the agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi.
According to the statement, the laboratory was dismantled on February 25, 2026.
In a related development, the agency announced the arrest of a wanted drug kingpin, Reginald Peter Chidiebere, who had been in hiding for 13 years over his alleged involvement in cocaine and heroin trafficking.
Babafemi said Chidiebere was first arrested in 2013 for importing cocaine into Nigeria and was subsequently arraigned before the Federal High Court of Nigeria in Lagos. He was granted bail by Justice Ayokunle Faji, but later failed to appear in court and disappeared.
The statement noted that his name resurfaced in February 2024 as one of the alleged masterminds behind the importation of 49.70 kilograms of heroin from South Africa, intercepted by the NDLEA operatives at the import shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport.
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