NDLEA Arrests Woman With 100 Wraps Of Heroin At Lagos Airport
Thompson Nsisongabasi
Aug 16, 2021
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested an Italy-bound woman, Nnadi Nora Chinyere, with 100 wraps and two parcels of heroin at the Lagos Airport.
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In a statement on Sunday by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi, the suspect was arrested on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, during an outward clearance of passengers on a Qatar Airways flight to Florentine, Italy.
Babafemi added that the drugs found on her were concealed in five containers of hair relaxer cream.
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In a related development, NDLEA operatives arrested a Nigerian Army ex-staff sergeant, Muffat Ekong and one Frank Iredia Obamwonyi on Wednesday 11th August with 286.3kilograms of cannabis at Ogwashi Uku, Delta state on their way to Enugu State.
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Meanwhile, on Friday 13th August, Benue state command of the agency arrested an interstate trafficker, Eze Victor Ezenwanne at Apir- Aliade road, Makurdi with 65.436kilograms of diazepam tablets.
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The same day, a suspected fake soldier, Adeyemi Segun Olamide was arrested in Maiduguri, Borno state with 650grams of skunk.
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During a patrol operation along Akure-Owo road, a team of operatives from Owo Area command of the Agency equally intercepted a bus from Lagos enroute Owo to Ibilo, Kogi state on 7th August.
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Recovered from the vehicle include six parcels of skunk weighing 3.6kg; 30 pinches of Crack Cocaine weighing 87grams and six sachets of Arizona weighing 265grams.
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Two suspects have been arrested in connection to drug trafficking.
The Chairman/Chief Executive, NDLEA, Brig-Gen Buba Marwa (retd.), commended the officers and men of the MMIA Command as well as their Ondo, Borno, Benue and Delta state counterparts for the huge seizures and arrests.
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He charged them and other commands to sustain the current momentum, assuring them that President Muhammadu Buhari recognised their efforts and would continue to motivate them to do more.
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