The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested an automobile spare parts dealer, Ejiofor Nnaemeka Chiwuzie, over an alleged attempt to export consignments of heroin and loud, a strain of cannabis, concealed in LED rechargeable lamps and sofa metal legs through the export shed of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the Ikeja area of Lagos State.
The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, September 29, 2024.
Babafemi disclosed that Ejiofor was arrested on Tuesday, September, 24, at the Trade Fair complex in the Ojo area of Lagos where he sells automobile spare parts following the seizure of his cargo containing auto parts, rechargeable lamps, sofa metal legs, and electronics going to Liberia at the export shed of the Lagos airport.
He listed items concealed in the LED lamps and sofa legs to include 37 parcels of heroin weighing 1.10 kilograms and four blocks of loud with a total weight of 1.20kg.
The NDLEA spokesman said a swift follow-up operation led to the arrest of two freight agents and then Ejiofor, who sent the consignment.
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Babafemi added that the NDLEA operatives recovered 6,000 ampoules of pentazocine injection from a 38-year-old suspect, Chukwudi Nwanoche, at the former Minna city gate in Niger State.
He disclosed that 9.7kg of Cannabis Sativa and 50 litres of monkey tail, a fermented combo of cannabis and dry gin, were recovered from a suspect Florence Moses in the Badore area of Ajah, Lekki in Lagos on Tuesday, September 24.
Babafemi further noted that the anti-narcotic officers also arrested 31-year-old Aminu Danmanya with 15,530 capsules of tramadol at the Kano residential hotel in Kano State.
While commending the officers of the anti-drug agency for the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) also applauded them for intensifying the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation lectures and advocacy messages to every part of their areas of responsibility.
