“Nigerian criminals are the only international gangs who are able to make agreements with everybody, from the Italian mafia to Latin America’s cartels. It’s a characteristic that has won them the business of drug smuggling between Africa and Europe,” a recent report by Italy’s anti-mafia agency said.

The story is the same in the United Kingdom, where Nigerian criminal gangs specialised in drug trafficking and complex frauds costing the system at least £600m annually, are said to be dominating proceedings in this regard. Following the rise of these gangs, British and the US agencies gave a recent warning that “Nigerian gangs’ operations could soon lead to armed violence and outgrow established cartels from Colombia, Turkey, and Italy.”

The threat of Nigerian drug and cult gangs have grown so fierce in recent years that law enforcement agencies in the UK have established special units dedicated to tackling the growing menace.

“You won’t find Nigerians standing on a street corner selling drugs,” spokesperson for one of the agencies, NCIS, said. “They are strictly the middlemen. They survive because they work alongside other gangs. They have their finger in every organised crime pie. They have strong links with everyone from the Colombian cartels to the Turkish mafia. They have a reputation as reliable and trustworthy.

“The syndicates make use of hundreds of well-established Nigerian communities around the world as a cover for their activities. Tens of thousands of Nigerians can be found in the most unlikely locations — 50,000 live in São Paulo, Brazil, 25,000 in Bangkok, Thailand, and 500,000 in South Africa, where they dominate the crack trade,” the agency said.

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