The National Drug Law Enforcement has seized Cocaine and Heroine with a street value of over N30billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Lagos, barely one week after the new Chairman of the agency, General Muhammed Buba Marwa, vowed to dismantle drug trafficking cartels across the country.
One of the seizures, 26.840 kilograms of cocaine is the biggest single seizure from an individual in the past 15 years according to a top official of the agency.
The seizure according to the official happened, “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.