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Barely two weeks after Gen. Buba Marwa assumed leadership of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), the regulatory body has made huge seizures of cocaine and heroines worth over N30billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos.
It was gathered that one of the seizures, weighing 26.840 kilograms was the biggest single seizure in the last decade.
A statement by the NDLEA read:
“On the 27th of January 2021, at about 1320hours, during the inward clearance of Ethiopian Airline passengers at the E- arrival hall of Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos, a female passenger by name Onyejegbu Ifesinachi Jennifer, 33 years, who arrived Nigeria from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Addis Ababa, was intercepted by NDLEA operatives.
According to him, the seizure weighing 26.840 kilograms is the biggest single seizure from an individual in the past 15 years.
Achema said that the drugs were seized after she was searched in line with NDLEA protocol profiling passengers “from high risk countries”.
“Field test was conducted on the recovered substances and proved positive to Cocaine and weighed 26.850 kilograms. The suspect who is a hair stylist and based in Brazil was interviewed and she confessed to have agreed to smuggle the hard drug for the sum of N2m only,” he said.
The NDLEA spokesman said that though she refused to disclose the names of her associates, the suspect said that she was asked to hand over the drugs to another person.
By Oluchi Chibuzor
The Murtala Mohammed International Airport Command of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has revealed that it arrested 60 suspects and made a total seizure of 3413.463 kilograms of illicit drugs with Khat leaves, tramadol, cocaine topping the chart in its 2020 year-in-review.
The command also said that it has made several arrests and seized 13kg, 7.8kg and 117grams of illicit drugs in 2021.
The Commandant of the NDLEA Airport Command, Mr. Ahmadu Garba, also disclosed to journalists that the agency’s partnership with the UK border force, the British National Crime Agency, paved the way for the creation of Joint Border Task Force Project (JBTF).