Gunmen open fire on NDLEA operatives
GUNMEN opened fire on a team of National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, on Awolowo Road, Lagos, in a bid to forcefully release the driver of a truck loaded with hard drugs. The armed operatives also shattered the windscreen of one of the operational vehicles of the anti-narcotic agency used to barricade the truck. But the timely intervention of military men averted what would have resulted in a blood bath, as the armed operatives escaped with the driver, abandoning the truck. In his maiden briefing at the NDLEA’s Lagos office in Gbagada, the new Lagos State Commander, Mr Umar Adoro, explained that acting on intelligence, “we ambushed the truck. We knew when they finished loading and when they started their movement and we chose to accost the truck on Awolowo Road, as that would determine whether the drugs were being conveyed to the mainland or offshore. "We waited until midnight before the truck was sighted and we intercepted it. Unfortuna...