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Three Nigerian-Aged Parents Arrested: NDLEA
Three Nigerian-Aged Parents Arrested: NDLEA
National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) Operatives have arrested 3 aged grandparents in possession of Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Skunk at the Muritala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos.
The sexagenarian grandfathers top the list of suspects arrested in connection with the seizure of
over 52.252 kilograms of Cocaine, Methamphetamine, and Skunk, as well as 32, 590 pills of opioids
in Lagos, Kwara, Plateau, Sokoto and two courier companies by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, in the past week.
The sexagenarian grandfathers top the list of suspects arrested
A suspect, Onyebi Benjamin Chimaobi, who frequents Cameroun, Ethiopia, and Uganda and has been
on NDLEA’s watchlist was on Saturday, 18th February, stopped at Victory estate, Iba, Ojo area of Lagos
in connection with the seizure of 19.70kgs cocaine abandoned on an Ethiopian airline flight that arrived
Lagos airport on Thursday, 9th February.
According to the NDLEA spokesman in a statement, Mr Femi Babafemi, Chimaobi had travelled to Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, to pick up the consignment, which he claimed was handed over to him in a black backpack bag on the plane in Addis Ababa but failed to disembark with it on arrival in Lagos.
Three Nigerian-Aged Parents Arrested: NDLEA
While the Agency continued to investigate the flight crew members, relevant intelligence and investigative tools were deployed to identify the passenger who brought the consignment to Nigeria, as a result of which Chimaobi was eventually unravelled and traced to Victory estate, Iba, where he was arrested.
Aged Nigerian Parents Arrested: NDLEA
In the same vein, operatives on Thursday, 23rd February, intercepted an intending passenger on a Turkish Airline flight to Torino via Milan, Italy, at the Departure Hall of the Lagos airport, Obazee Timothy Eguagie, with various quantities of opioids.
The consignment consisting a total of 22, 840 tablets of Tramadol 225mg, weighing 10.60 kg; 1000 tablets of Tramadol 200mg with a gross weight of 600 grams; 2, 300 capsules of Tramadol 100mg, weighing 800 grams and 60 tablets of Rohypnol 1mg, weighing 19 grams were concealed inside cloths and wrapped with black tapes.
NDLEA Officials Thwarted Their Plans
The following day, Friday, 24th February, NDLEA operatives attached to the NAHCO import shed of the airport intercepted eight cartons of shoes coming from Los Angeles, United States of America.
However, a diligent examination of the cargo showed that the shoes concealed 37 parcels of a Loud variant of Cannabis with a gross weight of 20.10 kilograms.
A 63-year-old grandfather, Balogun Akinlabi Abideen, hired as a freight agent to clear the illicit consignment, has already been arrested.
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