NDLEA discovered a Methamphetamine drug laboratory in Asaba Delta state.

Officials of the Special social control Team, SET, of the National Drug law enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have discovered a brilliant methamphetamine laboratory set in Asaba, Delta State and dislodged a significant traffic organisation within the country. This super methamphetamine laboratory is comparable to those found in Mexico and it's the first to be discovered within the country. NDLEA Chief government, Col. Muhammad Abdallah, disclosed this to journalists at news informing at the weekend on the invention of the super cloak-and-dagger methamphetamine
laboratory at the agency’s headquarters in Lagos. He expressed that the laboratory has the capability to supply between 3,000 kilogram and 4,000 kilogram of methamphetamine per production cycle.

According to him, “A vital feature of this laboratory is that the assembly method is a lot of technical and complicated as a result of it uses the synthesis methodology of methamphetamine production. All the principal actors coupled to the current illicit act were arrested in a very coincidental raid on members of the drug syndicate in metropolis, Obosi in Anambra State and at the laboratory in Asaba, Delta State”. Those apprehended in step with the NDLEA boss are four Nigerians believed to be joint partner of the laboratory and 4 Mexicans, who were methamphetamine production consultants employed as technical partners into the country.

He listed the names of the suspects in remission by the anti-narcotic agency to include: Chief Chibi Aruh, William Ejike Agusi, Umolu Kosisochukwu and Umolu Chukwemeka.Other suspects who were Mexicans are Cervantos Madrid Jose Bruno, Rivas Ruiz Pastiano, Castillo Barraza Cristobal and Partida Gonzalez Pedro. Abdallah described the operation as technical underground assignment resulting in the disassembly of a drug trafficking organization. “In a technical operation, four Mexicans were detention in active production exercise within the super laboratory.

The syndicate initial brought 2 Mexican methamphetamine consultants, Cervantos Madrid Jose Bruno and Rivas Ruiz Pastiano to Nigeria however due to the dimensions of the laboratory plus the amount of labor, 2 further Mexicans, Castillo Barraza Cristobal and Partida Gonzalez Pedro were brought in. Our investigation disclosed that a triple-crown take a look at production was done at the laboratory in February 2016”, he said. He hinted that the laboratory was raided whereas the second production cycle was in progress, adding that things recovered at the laboratory include 1.5kg of finished methamphetamine and 750 litres of liquid methamphetamine.

Other things found within the laboratory are: industrial pressure pots, gas cylinders, gas burners, facial masks and various chemicals. conjointly recovered during this operation were Toyota tundra, Mercedes Benz auto cubic centimeter and a Toyota scroll automobile. Abdallah warned that unless forceful measures were taken against this ugly trend, the increase of super laboratories can place Nigeria on the worldwide spotlight in methamphetamine production. His words: “This is as a result of the laboratory operates at an industrial scale with a high yield of 3,000kg to 4,000kgs of methamphetamine per production cycle.