Intercepts 26,600 bottles of Akuskura, seizes 18 pump action guns, 2,300 cartridges
NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, in a statement yesterday, said a search of his luggage revealed he had concealed 5.90kg cocaine inside cans of deodorants and female lip gloss. The 44-year-old indigene of Anambra State said he was expecting to be paid N2 million on successful delivery of the illicit drug in Nigeria.
Also at the Lagos airport, a freight agent, Lawal Adeyemi was arrested same day for attempting to export some sachets of lexotan among other non-controlled drugs to Liberia, while operatives seized 593.90 kilogrammes of khat leaf at the Nigerian Aviation Handling Company import shed of the airport on Thursday, September 15, after a joint examination of the cargo by a combined team of security agencies.
Another suspect, Anthony Agada, 37, conveying 1,000 cartridges, was equally nabbed in a bus coming from Onitsha to Abuja same day, while 1,404 bottles of codeine syrup and 2,040 ampoules of pentazocine injection were seized from another vehicle coming from Onitsha enroute Sokoto, with the receiver, Stanley Raymond, 39 and the sender, Shadrack Ifediora, 46, arrested in follow up operations in Sokoto and Anambra respectively.
In Edo State, operatives recovered 285kg of cannabis in two raids at Okpuje, Owan West Local Council on Friday, September 16, while in Lagos, 972.5kg of the same substance was recovered from an electronic shop at Alaba Int’l market and one of the suspects, Mrs. Ebere Aja, 38, arrested.
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