Operatives of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency has intercepted 101 parcels of Cocaine in children duvet at the Muritala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Director, Media and Advocacy
NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday that the illicit drug was brought into the country by a 52-year old man, Akudirinwa Hilary Uchenna fromfrom Oru East Local Government area of Imo state.
Babafemi said that the suspect was arrested on Saturday 9th April at D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos Airport on his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha aboard Qatar Airline flight.
He said that the 101 parcels of the class A drug with a gross weight of 13.2 kilogram were recovered from his only check-in bag.
According to him, the suspect Uchenna who claimed to be a carpenter confessed that he was to be paid N5million to do the dirty job to deliver the consignment in Lagos.
Babafemi also said that operatives of the Agency also intercepted big pellets of skunk concealed in detergent containers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu.
Babafemi said that a 37-year-old South African returnee, Ezekwesili Afamefune, brought in the consignment weighing 730grams aboard Ethiopian Airline flight from Johannesburg, South Africa via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ezekwesili is from Awka south local government area of Anambra state.
Babafemi said further that “In Edo state, a 24-year-old drug dealer Christian John was arrested by NDLEA operatives in Egbeta, Ovia North East LGA for selling assorted illicit drugs which include sachets of drugged Milo beverage, cannabis sativa, swinol and tramadol tablets.
“In Zamfara State, one Chibuzor Uba, 30, was arrested on Friday 8th April with 1,955 ampules of pentazocine at Kaura Namoda area of Zamfara state.
“A cross-border drug trafficker, Stanley Chibuzor, 21, was on Friday 8th April arrested by officers of the Marine Unit of NDLEA stationed at Oron beach, Oron, Akwa Ibom state. The suspect who hails from Ihiala, Anambra state was nabbed with 11,190 tablets of Tramadol during the outward clearance of passengers traveling to Cameroon.
“In Ondo state, a drug dealer who produces and sells skuchies, Oluwaseun Agboola, 25, was arrested on Thursday 7th April, at his Igoba, Second Gate, Akure residence where 73 bottles of skuchies weighing 77kg stocked in his kitchen were recovered. Skuchies are usually a mixture of Tramadol, Cannabis sativa, Codeine, Black Currant (popularly called Zobo) and water.
In Lagos, an early morning raid in the notorious Akala, Mushin area of the state on Saturday 9th April led to the seizure of 746.25 kilograms of cannabis.”
The statement quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen Buba Marwa, as having commended the officers and men of the MMIA, AIIA, Edo, Zamfara, Akwa Ibom, Lagos and Ondo state Commands of the Agency for the arrests and seizures.
Marwa “charged them and their colleagues across the country to remain focussed and abstain from acts capable of compromising or jeopardising the collective goal of ridding Nigeria of drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.”
