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Home » NDLEA Seizes Hard Drugs Concealed In Containers At Tin Can Port

NDLEA Seizes Hard Drugs Concealed In Containers At Tin Can Port

·         Intercepted Europe-bound drugs at Lagos airport

by Joshua
February 6, 2023
in Featured, News

Barely a month after operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Tin Can port intercepted a consignment of 24.5kgs of cannabis indica concealed in used vehicles imported from Canada, they have again seized 75.75kgs of the same substance, which came from Montreal, Canada, hidden in a container of four used vehicles with number MSCU 5336680.

Coincidentally, the consignment has also been traced to a suspect already in custody in connection with the earlier seizure, Steve Adigwe and his accomplice, Cedrick Maduweke who is still on the run.

In another development, the NDLEA said attempts to export large consignments of illicit drugs especially cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine and ephedrine to Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Europe through various disingenuous modes of concealment by desperate drug cartels via the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos have again been frustrated by its operatives who intercepted them and arrested those behind the bids

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

He was debarked from an Ethiopian airline flight on Friday, February 3, after officers in the tarmac team of the NDLEA intercepted two bags during a secondary check exercise at the foot of the aircraft.

The spokesperson for the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi revealed in a statement obtained by our correspondent on Sunday.

Babafemi noted that 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 were used to construct false walls at the sides of the bag.

The two parcels contained substances that tested positive for cocaine and heroin with a gross weight of 1.30kgs and 900grams respectively.

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

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

He noted that 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 the Alaba trade fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos, Onyekachukwu Uduekwelu after the initial arrest of two freight agents.

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

In the same vein, operatives at the SAHCO export shed off the airport on Thursday, January 26, 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 for methamphetamine with a gross weight of 1kg, as well as 300 grams of skunk and 100 grams of ecstasy (MDMA) were recovered. A freight agent, Mfonabasi Joseph was already arrested in connection with the seizure.

Babafemi further stated that no fewer than 255,500 pills of tramadol and diazepam were recovered from an Italy-based suspect, Duru Josephat who concealed the drugs in two of the bags he was travelling with to Milan, Italy on an Ethiopian airline flight.

He confessed he bought the drugs in Onitsha, Anambra state and was taking them to Italy to sell.

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