NDLEA intercepts drug consignments in winter jackets, body lotion at Lagos airport
The National Drug Regulations Enforcement Company, NDLEA, intercepted consignments of Tramadol, Rohypnol, Ecstasy (Vogue designer drug), and Cannabis concealed in wintry weather jackets and bottles of physique cream on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.
The psychoactive substances personal been recovered on the unique terminal of the airport on Friday 14th April following the arrest of a passenger, Joshia Sunday who used to be traveling on a Qatar Airline flight by skill of Doha to Oman, Center East.
An intensive search of the suspect’s two shadowy baggage ended in the invention of 4.80 kilograms of cannabis concealed in three wintry weather jackets and various quantities of Tramadol, Rohypnol, and Ecstasy (Vogue designer drug) hidden in bottles of physique lotion. Preliminary investigation printed that the suspect came into Nigeria from Oman on April 7, and used to be returning exactly a week after.
Within the same method, in Katsina say, no decrease than 1,730 bottles of codeine-basically based mostly syrup personal been seized from a suspect, Bishir Saadu in Katsina metropolis on Sunday ninth April gorgeous as Muhamadu Yusuf used to be equally arrested the identical day with 8,000 capsules of tramadol interior a commercial bus alongside Kano – Katsina avenue.
Within the identical vein, NDLEA operatives in Kaduna on Thursday 13th April raided a clandestine laboratory the build mist potassium citrate used to be being produced in a residential residence at 16 Sabon Gari, Zaria. The owner of the lab, Christopher Agodi used to be arrested and 102 cartons containing 2,448 bottles of the substance personal been recovered.
Within the same method, anti-narcotic officers performing on a tip-off, arrested two suspects: Aminu Saudi, forty five and Abdullahi Sani, 35, at Ogbese, Ondo say, with 11 jumbo baggage containing 211kg of cannabis concealed in rice chaff. This used to be closely followed by the destruction of six hectares of cannabis farm in the Uso wooded discipline in the say on Thursday 13th April.
Reacting Chairman/Chief Government Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the officers of the Company for the arrests and seizures of the previous week.
He entreated them to remain centered and proceed the recent drug present discount and drug question discount efforts concurrently.
