NDLEA ARRESTS PARIS-BOUND BUSINESSMAN EXCRETES 93 WRAPS OF HEROIN AT ABUJA AIRPORT 22-10-23
By Sadiq Aminu Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have arrested a 40-year-old Madrid, Spain-based businessman, Sherif Egbo Ally at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after they discovered he ingested illicit drugs.
A statement by the Director, Media & Advocacy Femi Babafemi, Sherif Egbo was arrested after body scanner revealed he had wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach and placed under observation at the Agency’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms.
The suspect claimed he works at a chicken hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain and also into drug trafficking business.
In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the NAHCO imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos seized a consignment of 10 cartons containing 500,000 pills of tramadol 225mg branded as tapentadol.
Also, attempt by an intending passenger to Muscat, Oman on Qatar airways, Ngene Chinecherem Oscar to export 11.100kgs of skunk and 600grams of tramadol concealed in foodstuffs through the Lagos airport was thwarted by NDLEA officers who arrested him and seized the illicit substances.
In another operation, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, DOGI, attached to courier companies intercepted 1kg methamphetamine concealed in containers of body cream going to New Zealand as well as another consignment of 2.5kgs cocaine and phenacetin hidden in walls of a carton heading to Saudi Arabia.
Two more seizures: 112grams of Dimethyl Sulfone and 583grams of Cocaine and phenacetin were made at another courier company in Lagos on Wednesday 18th October. While the Dimethyl Sulfone was concealed in the hollow of a motor driving shaft going to New Zealand, the consignment of Cocaine and phenacetin was packed into a bottle of body cream heading to Saudi Arabia.
The statement notes that the Commands across the 36 states and the FCT equally continued their War Against Drug Abuse, sensitisation lectures in schools, communities, work places and others.
It states that the Chairman of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohammed Buba Marwa (Rtd) charged them and their compatriots across all formations of the Agency to continue to remain vigilant and double their efforts especially with the desperation of criminal networks to make money by all means towards the end of the year season.