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Consignments of cocaine, Meth, heroin and ephedrine intercepted at Lagos airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs especially cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ephedrine at  Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.

Efforts of the drug cartel to export the illicit drugs to to Dubai, UAE and Europe through various disingenuous modes of concealment was frustrated and those behind the bids have been arrested.

Top on the list of those so far arrested in connection with the seizures is a Nigerian based in Athens, Greece, Iwuozor Edward Chinedu. 

According to a statement by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Mr. Femi Babafemi, the suspect was debarked from an Ethiopian airline flight on Friday 3rd February after officers in the tarmac team of NDLEA intercepted two bags during a secondary check exercise at the foot of the aircraft.

When the bags were searched in the presence of Chinedu and other airport stakeholders, two big pellets wrapped with foil papers and some sprinkles of pepper were recovered from each of the two sides of one of the bags. 

The pellets he said, were used to construct false walls at the sides of the bag while the two parcels contained substances that tested positive to cocaine and heroin with a gross weight of 1.30kgs and 900grams.

During preliminary interview, Chinedu claimed he came to Nigeria three months ago to do a surgery, which he was not comfortable doing in Athens and further claimed he was given the bag to deliver in Greece for a fee of two million naira (N2,000,000).

Similarly, NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO export shed of the airport on Monday 30th January arrested a pregnant woman, Mrs. Sylvester Gloria Onome after 800grams of skunk were discovered concealed in two small radio sets she was sending to Dubai, United Arab Emirate. 

Giving a breakdown of seizures and arrests, Mr. Babafemi said, on the same day, operatives also intercepted a consignment going to Congo Kinshasa, containing 111 bottles of body cream that were used to conceal 24.50kgs of ephedrine, a chemical precursor and active ingredient to produce methamphetamine. 

The cargo was later traced to a trader at Alaba trade fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos, Onyekachukwu Uduekwelu after the initial arrest of two freight agents.

“Another housewife, Mrs. Okpara Chizoba Victoria was arrested at her residence at 37 Obashola street, Ijesha area of Lagos on Friday 27th Jan. following the seizure of 300grams of skunk hidden in a bag of crayfish she was sending to Dubai, UAE through a freight agent”. 

In the same vein, operatives at the SAHCO export shed of the airport on Thursday 26th Jan. intercepted a sack of new clothes going to Sierra Leone.

During a thorough search of the consignment, a parcel of white crystalline substance that tested positive to methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1kg, as well as 300grams of skunk and 100grams ecstasy (MDMA) were recovered. 

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