By Oluchi Chibuzor
The Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has revealed that it arrested 60 suspects and made a total seizure of 3413.463 kilograms of illicit drugs with Khat leaves, tramadol, cocaine topping the chart in its 2020 year-in-review.
The command also said that it has made several arrests and seized 13kg, 7.8kg and 117grams of illicit drugs in 2021.
The Commandant of the NDLEA Airport Command, Mr. Ahmadu Garba, also disclosed to journalists that the agency’s partnership with the UK border force, the British National Crime Agency, paved the way for the creation of Joint Border Task Force Project (JBTF).
NDLEA nabs three with 137.8kg of cocaine at Lagos airport NDLEA nabs three with 137.8kg of cocaine at Lagos airport
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The National Drug Law and Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), Lagos International Airport, has arrested three suspects all males with 137.8 kilograms of cocaine.
All the suspects were caught on the 6th and 8th of January 2021 with the illicit drugs neatly hidden inside hair relaxers, embroidery tailoring materials and shirts packaged with carbon and other oily substances to avoid being detected by the scanning machines.
The suspected drug traffickers whose names were given as Okeke Uchenna and Azubuike Jeremiah Emeka were caught by officials of the agency during the inward clearance of Ethiopian airlines from Brazil while Abdul Musa, a freight forwarder was nabbed while trying to export Cocaine to India through the cargo warehouse of the Skyway Aviation Handling Company, SAHCO in Lagos.
The all male suspects were arrested at the Lagos International Airport, on January 6 and 8, 2021 with the illicit drugs hidden inside hair relaxers, embroidery tailoring materials and shirts packaged with carbon and other oily substances to avoid being detected by the scanning machines.