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The Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company, NDLEA, says its operatives have arrested a 40-year-old Madrid, Spain-based businessman, Sherif Egbo Ally, on the Nnamdi Azikiwe Worldwide Airport, NAIA, Abuja whereas making an attempt to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they found he ingested illicit medicine.
NDLEA stated Egbo was arrested on Saturday 14th October after a physique scanner search revealed he had wraps of illicit medicine in his abdomen.
In line with the anti-narcotic company, the suspect was subsequently positioned below statement on the exhibit restoration room the place he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms.
The NDLEA’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, in a press release issued on Sunday, said that the suspect claimed he works at a rooster hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain, and can be into drug trafficking enterprise.
Babafemi additionally introduced that the NDLEA operatives on the NAHCO imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed Worldwide Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, on Monday sixteenth October, seized a consignment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 drugs of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol.
He defined that the cargo, which was shipped from India by Qatar Airways with airwaybill quantity MAWB 319-01227236 was presupposed to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia.
Babafemi stated the lid was blown open by partnership and actual time intelligence sharing mechanisms between NDLEA and its Liberian counterpart.
The spokesperson additionally introduced different seizures made by the Company.
He stated, “Try by an intending passenger to Muscat, Oman on Qatar Airways, Ngene Chinecherem Oscar, to export 11.100kgs of skunk and 600grams of tramadol hid in foodstuffs by the Lagos airport was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and seized the illicit substances.
“In one other operation, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and Normal Investigations, DOGI, hooked up to courier corporations on Sunday fifteenth October intercepted 1kg methamphetamine hid in containers of physique cream going to New Zealand in addition to one other consignment of two.5kgs cocaine and phenacetin hidden in partitions of a carton heading to Saudi Arabia.
“Two extra seizures: 112grams of Dimethyl Sulfone and 583grams of Cocaine and phenacetin have been made at one other courier firm in Lagos on Wednesday 18th October. Whereas the Dimethyl Sulfone was hid within the hole of a motor driving shaft going to New Zealand, the consignment of Cocaine and phenacetin was packed right into a bottle of physique cream heading to Saudi Arabia.
“In Imo State, operatives on Sunday fifteenth October intercepted a Mercedes Benz container truck marked ABN 418 YN parked in an remoted space alongside Owerri – Onitsha Expressway. A search of the deserted truck led to the restoration of 168 luggage of skunk weighing 1, 854 kilograms.
“Not lower than 1,381.3kgs of the identical substance have been seized in 4 interdiction operations in components of Edo State together with: Ekpon group, Igueben LGA; Iguiye forest in Ovia North East LGA; Iruekpen, Ndokwa West the place a suspect, Monday Samuel Nwocha was arrested and Egwalor village in Onwude LGA the place the duo of Obune Prince and Chika Obi was arrested and their Audi 80 salon automobile marked BEN 406 CL loaded with hashish sativa, recovered.
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