NDLEA Intercepts 101 Parcels Of Cocaine At Lagos Airport

Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted no less than 101 parcels of Cocaine concealed in eight children duvets at the MurtalaMuhammed International Airport (MMIA), Ikeja, Lagos.
The agency disclosed that the illicit drug was brought into the country by a 52-year-old Brazilian returnee, Akudirinwa Hilary Uchenna, who hails from Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State.
In another operation, the NDLEA seized drugged Milo beverage in Edo; concealed in detergent containers at Enugu Airport.
A statement by the Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, yesterday, said Uchenna was arrested, last Saturday, at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos Airport upon his return from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha aboard Qatar Airline flight, while the 101 parcels of the Class A drug with a gross weight of 13.2kilogramme were recovered from his only check-in bag.
During preliminary interview, Uchenna, who claimed to be a carpenter, confessed that he was to be paid N5million for trafficking the drug after successfully delivering the consignment in Lagos.
In a related development, big pellets of skunk concealed in detergent containers have been intercepted at the AkanuIbiam International Airport (AIIA), Enugu.
A 37-year-old South African returnee, EzekwesiliAfamefune brought in the consignment weighing 730grammes aboard Ethiopian Airline flight from Johannesburg, South Africa via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Ezekwesili is from AwkaSouth Local Government Area of AnambraState.
In Edo State, a 24-year-old drug dealer, Christian John was arrested by NDLEA operatives in Egbeta, Ovia North East LGA for selling assorted illicit drugs which include sachets of drugged Milo beverage, cannabis sativa, swinol and tramadol tablets, while in ZamfaraState, one ChibuzorUba, 30, was arrested on Friday, April 8, with 1,955 ampules of pentazocine at KauraNamoda area of ZamfaraState.
A cross-border drug trafficker, Stanley Chibuzor, 21, was on Friday, April 8, arrested by officers of the Marine Unit of NDLEA stationed at Oron beach, Oron, AkwaIbomState.
The suspect, who hails from Ihiala, AnambraState was nabbed with 11,190 tablets of Tramadol during the outward clearance of passengers traveling to Cameroon.
In OndoState, a drug dealer who produces and sells skuchies, OluwaseunAgboola, 25, was arrested on Thursday, April 7, at his Igoba, Second Gate, Akure residence where 73 bottles of skuchies weighing 77kg stocked in his kitchen were recovered.
Skuchies are usually a mixture of Tramadol, Cannabis sativa, Codeine, Black Currant (popularly called Zobo) and water.
In Lagos, an early morning raid in the notorious Akala, Mushin area of the state on Saturday, April 9, led to the seizure of 746.25 kilogrammes of cannabis.
While commending officers and men of the MMIA, AIIA, Edo, Zamfara, AkwaIbom, Lagos and OndoStates’ Commands of the agency for the arrests and seizures, Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig.-Gen. Mohammed Marwa (rtd) charged them and their colleagues across the country to remain focussed and abstain from acts capable of compromising or jeopardising the collective goal of ridding Nigeria of drug abuse and illicit drug trafficking.