The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, on Sunday announced that the agency intercepted some illegal substances which was headed for the United Kingdom, Saudi Arabia, New Zealand and Cyprus at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and some courier companies.
This was disclosed by the Director, Media & Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, through a press statement issued on Sunday, who stated that some of the illegal substances included cocaine, methamphetamine and its precursor chemical, and ephedrine.
The NDLEA spokesperson, also said the agency also arrested Nwudele Basil Christopher; Chiedu Ezenwani Francis and Donatus Nwojiji, in connection to the crime.
Babafemi said, “At the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, vigilant operatives of the agency on Monday, February 13, intercepted 29-year-old Apeh Ogbonna while attempting to board Turkish airline flight TK0624 going through Istanbul to Cyprus, with 4.5 kilograms of methamphetamine concealed in false bottoms of his travelling bag
“The suspect claimed he was running a boutique business in Enugu before he decided to travel to Cyprus for a degree in Business Administration.
“At three different courier firms in Lagos, operatives intercepted two cocaine consignments weighing 400 grams each, going to the United Kingdom and Saudi Arabia.
“They were hidden in the walls of cartons used for packaging. Two other consignments containing 500 grams and 100 grams of methamphetamine were also blocked from being shipped to New Zealand after they were discovered concealed in food items.”
According to Babafemi, officers confiscated 2,684,900 pills of tramadol and other pharmaceutical opioids during interdiction operations in several states during the last week.
In Adamawa, 250,000 tramadol and exol-5 pills, as well as 1800ml of codeine, were discovered neatly disguised in the reserve gasoline tank of a trailer from Onitsha, Anambra state, at Mubi, and a dealer, Hussaini Ibrahim (a.k.a. Bafu), was arrested.
While a total of 279,000 pills of tramadol 200mg and 225mg were recovered from a suspect, Hammajan Suleman, along Okene-Abuja highway in Kogi, on Monday, February 13, 376 blocks of skunk weighing 229.36kgs and a Toyota Camry car used in conveying the consignment from Edo State enroute Kano by another suspect, Moses Alabi were handed over to NDLEA by a patrol team of the Nigerian Army, in Lokoja on Tuesday, February 14.
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