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The N2.3bn cocaine haul. Picture: NAN
…As NDLEA nab three traffickers with 256kgs medicine in Kwara, Kogi, Niger
Operatives of the Nationwide Drug Regulation Enforcement Company, have intercepted a Brazil-returnee, Agbasi Prosper, with 105 parcels of cocaine hid in candies on the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State on Christmas Day.
The suspect was arrested on the ‘D’ arrival corridor of the MMIA throughout inward clearance of passengers from Sao Paulo, Brazil through Doha on Qatar Airways on Monday, December 25, 2022, following credible intelligence.
Based on a press release by the NDLEA’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, an preliminary search of the suspect’s two checked-in luggage virtually made him a free man as there was nothing incriminating discovered there till the NDLEA officers took a second take a look at the duty-free buying nylon luggage containing packs of candies he was holding in his arms.
Babafemi famous {that a} thorough examination of the duty-free buying luggage revealed the packs of candies inside had been really used to hide 105 parcels of cocaine weighing 2.8 kilograms and 43 grams of hashish.
He mentioned, “Preliminary take a look at performed on a plastic bottle of physique lotion additionally present in possession of the suspect additionally examined optimistic to cocaine with a complete weight of 472 grams. Married to a Brazilian woman with a daughter, Prosper who claimed to be within the clothes enterprise in Brazil hoped to promote the drug in Enugu, his state.
“In the meantime, three different traffickers had been arrested by operatives with a complete of 256 kilograms of illicit substances seized from them throughout interdiction operations in Kwara, Kogi and Niger states up to now week.
“Whereas a staff of NDLEA officers on cease and search responsibility alongside Ilorin-Jebba freeway on Sunday, December 25 arrested a suspect, Idris Saeed, 19, with 60 blocks of compressed Hashish Sativa weighing 30kgs, their colleagues in Niger state on comparable operation alongside Jebba-Mokwa highway additionally recovered 240 blocks of the identical substance weighing 168 kilograms, from multi-colour sacks loaded in a Peugeot J5 bus, with registration quantity MAG 146 XA, coming from Lagos and going to Kano for supply.
“In Kogi state, NDLEA operatives additionally intercepted a truck coming from Onitsha, Anambra State to Maiduguri, Borno alongside Okene-Abuja freeway the place 9,900 ampoules of pentazocine injection (42kgs) had been recovered on Saturday, December 24. In the identical vein, a suspect, Ibrahim Jibril, 20, was arrested on the identical route with 40 blocks of hashish sativa weighing 16kgs coming from Lagos to Jigawa in a Toyota Hiace industrial bus on Tuesday, December 27.”
