The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has dismantled a Nigerian-Mexican drug cartel allegedly operating a clandestine methamphetamine laboratory in Eziama community, Obeagu, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
CDA News Nigeria gathered that two alleged kingpins of the syndicate, 45-year-old Chukwu Obumneme Christopher, alias Brown, and 60-year-old Chukwu Georginus Monday, alias George, were arrested following months of intelligence gathering and surveillance by the agency’s Special Operations Unit.
According to NDLEA spokesperson Femi Babafemi, the suspects allegedly operated the laboratory in collaboration with Rodriguez Villanueva, a suspected member of a Mexican drug cartel based in Mexico City, who remains at large alongside two other suspects, Uchenna, alias Uche, and Celestine Ikemefuna Iwuchukwu.
The NDLEA said surveillance conducted between December 1 and 4, 2025, tracked Christopher’s movements across Lagos, Enugu and Anambra states before leading operatives to the Obeagu compound, where a laboratory equipped with improvised reactors and distillation equipment, capable of producing methamphetamine in commercial quantities, was uncovered.
Items recovered included 690 litres of methylamine, 1,000 litres of isopropyl alcohol, 300 litres of hydrochloric acid, 290 litres each of toluene and acetone, 400 litres of liquid sodium hydroxide, 125kg of N-phenylacetamide and 414kg of lead acetate, consistent with a P2P-based methamphetamine manufacturing operation.
Christopher and Monday were arraigned before Justice Mabel Taiye Segun-Bello of the Federal High Court, Enugu, on a five-count charge bordering on conspiracy and unlawful possession of precursor chemicals. The court fixed October 21, 2026, for trial after the NDLEA applied for an accelerated hearing.
CDA News Nigeria will continue monitoring this case.
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