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Cocaine Traffickers Nabbed in Lagos Airport

by Julius Afolalu
November 1, 2021
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Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have again scuttled some desperate efforts by drug cartels to export different quantities of cocaine, Heroin, Methamphetamine, and Cannabis to London, the United Kingdom through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Lagos.

Narcotic officers of the Agency had on Thursday 28th October during outward routine clearance of cargo at NAHCO export shed of the airport intercepted 20 parcels of cocaine weighing 1.2kg concealed in packets of Zee black soap; 23 parcels of heroin weighing 1.4kg hidden in packets of Zee black soap and 39 parcels of 2.35kg methamphetamine concealed in Dudu-Osun black soap packets.

NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi in a statement on Sunday, noted that a few days earlier, October 21, a similar cargo had been intercepted at the NAHCO shed of the MMIA, where 7.35kg of cannabis concealed inside some tablets of Dudu Osun black soap was recovered.

No fewer than three suspects have so far been arrested in connection to the seizures.

Barely a week after she was arrested and granted bail for attempting to smuggle drugs concealed in cassava flour meal called akpu into NDLEA cell for a suspect in custody, a nursing mother, who claims to be a part-time 400-level student of International Studies and Diplomacy at the University of Benin, Mariam Adetilewa Dirisu, was again arrested for trafficking 5kg skunk and 8.1grams of Molly.

The 35-year-old mother of a two-month-old baby was first arrested on 21st October by the Edo State Command of the Agency.

Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) had on the same day directed that she be counselled and released immediately because of the young baby she was carrying.

Curiously, a controlled delivery operation carried out by operatives of the Delta State Command of the Agency on Saturday 30th October again led to the arrest of Mariam who had ordered the drugs from Lagos even while still on bail for an earlier offence.

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