2 Suspects Detained for Distribution of Hard Drugs Packaged as Christmas Cookies Via WhatsApp
Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested two suspects in connection with the distribution of hard drugs packaged as Christmas cookies in Lagos State through a WhatsApp group.
The suspects in custody are DEJI ADESANYA and OLUBIYI MAJEKODUNMI, who were arrested during a raid in the Lekki axis of Eti-Osa, Lagos.
The suspects are alleged to have concealed Canadian Loud variant of cannabis for retail of the psychoactive substance in designer sachets, labeled as cookies and snacks.
NDLEA spokesman, FEMI BABAFEMI, confirmed the development in a statement, saying that operatives raided an apartment on Ojulari street in Ikate in Eti-Osa, where the suspects were arrested and five kilograms of Loud recovered.
BABAFEMI said NDLEA operatives also carried out another operation on Thursday, November 27, 2025, at the Ladipo area of Mushin, Lagos, where they arrested thirty-eight-year-old PHILIP UCHEKA while making delivery of a consignment of Canadian Loud.
Still in Lagos; NDLEA operatives on the same Thursday, November 27, stormed a logistics company and intercepted a parcel of Canadian Loud stuffed inside a teddy bear imported from Thailand, as well as five hundred and forty-eight capsules of tramadol being smuggled to the United Kingdom.
