NDLEA Intercepts Brazil Returnee with Parcels of Cocaine

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The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos, intercepted parcels of cocaine concealed in different parts of a travel bag brought into the country from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha, on a Qatar Airways flight by a Brazil returnee, Nwadinobi Uchemadu.

A statement yesterday by the spokesman of the anti-narcotics agency, Femi Babafemi, revealed that Uchemadu was arrested last Monday, at the Lagos airport during inward clearance of passengers on the Qatar airways flight following the discovery of three parcels of cocaine weighing 2.7 kilogrammes factory sealed in parts of his travel bag.

Babafemi said at the SAHCO export shed of the airport same day, NDLEA operatives equally intercepted cans of powdered milk, baby food and beverages used to conceal 3.4 kilogrammes of cannabis going to Dubai, UAE, adding that a freight agent, Ewelike Cyril who presented the consignment for export was subsequently arrested.

He further revealed that parcels of cannabis weighing 6.3 kilogrammes concealed in sound systems (speakers) going to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea through the SAHCO export shed of the airport were also seized last Thursday, by the operatives who initially arrested a freight agent, Joseph Obiji involved; then last Friday, nabbed another agent, Mbanu Ifeanyi in a follow up operation at ASPAMDA market, Trade Fair complex, Ojo area of Lagos State.

Furthermore, Babafemi, disclosed that at the Akala notorious drug hub in the Mushin area of Lagos State, no fewer than 15 drug dealers including two ladies were arrested with 1,400 kilogrammes of cannabis sativa among other illicit substances such as heroin, methamphetamine, and 320 bottles of codeine syrup recovered from them during a raid of the area last Friday.

He said another raid of the popular Idumota business district of Lagos Island last Saturday, led to the seizure of 35,014 pills of tramadol, diazepam, rohypnol and 21.2 litres of codeine syrup while a targeted notorious dealer was said to still be on the run. This, he said was even as officers of the Directorate of Seaports Operations of the agency arrested a Malian, Dembele Ousmane on December 5, with 32,400 capsules of tramadol 225mg concealed in factory packed buckets of custard while attempting to travel to Mali via boat at Ebute -Ero Jetty in Lagos.