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Oluwatosin Omojuyigbe and Umar Muhammed
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency has arrested one Ukaegbu Onyekachi with a 3.30 kilogram of cocaine at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos State.
It was gathered that Onyekachi, who arrived from Sao Paulo, Brazil, via an Ethiopian airline, was intercepted on Monday during an inward clearance of passengers of the airline at the E Arrival Hall of the airport.
In a statement on Tuesday, the airport commander of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Garba, said Onyekachi concealed the drug inside T-shirt stickers.
He said, “The hard drug was cleverly concealed in T-shirts stickers, but he couldn’t escape the eagle eyes of our detectives.”
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Umar Muhammed, Lafia
A 35-year-old woman, Rakiya Haladu has been arrested by the Nasarawa State Command of the National Drugs Law Enforcement Agency with 45 bags of cannabis sativa weighing about 474 kilograms and worth N11,250,000.
The Command also arrested 54 drug suspects comprising of 12 dealers and 42 drug addicts across the 13 local government areas and 18 development areas of the state.
Parading the suspects at the Command in Lafia on Tuesday, the Commandant, Justice Arinze, said ten of the drug dealers have been convicted at the Federal High Court sitting in Lafia, the state capital.
He added that the Command busted into a warehouse in Lafia and arrested a suspected housewife allegedly engaged in drug trafficking.