Crime

NDLEA Intercepts Suspected Drug Syndicates.

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1 year ago

March 19, 2023

Stella Charles Akupue

NDLEA Intercepts Suspected Drug Syndicates.

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, have foiled the activities of a drug syndicate between Nigeria, East Africa, and Europe, with the arrest of two suspected cartel members.

Operatives at the Lagos airport had, on Monday, 13th March, intercepted a suspected member of the drug syndicate, Ejezie Vitus Ifeanyi, during the screening of inward passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight from Malawi via Addis Ababa at the arrival hall.

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According to the spokesman of NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, in a statement, when a search was conducted on the suspect, it was discovered that one of his two bags had a false bottom concealment.

During the preliminary interview of the suspect, he confessed that a syndicate member was waiting at the airport car park to pick him up.

He said an immediate follow-up operation led to the arrest of Chukwu Franco Bright, who was waiting in a grey Mercedes Benz C180 coupe marked EKY 973 GQ to receive the drug consignment.

After his arrest, a proper bag search was conducted before the two suspects, leading to the recovery of 3.00 kilograms of heroin.

Also, in the statement, at the Skyway Aviation Handling Company SAHCO export shed of the MMIA on Wednesday, 15th March, NDLEA operatives intercepted a jerrycan of palm oil going to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.

At the point of examination, it was discovered that 600 grams of cannabis sativa were concealed inside the jerrycan of palm oil.

A suspect, Tunde Ogunbowale, who presented the consignment for export to Dubai, was immediately arrested.

This is just as another attempt to export 2.7kg cannabis packaged as part of dried onions to Dubai through a postal service firm was frustrated by NDLEA officers attached to the courier company, who seized a carton filled with colourful sachets of dried onions used to conceal the illicit consignment.