The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested 35 persons over alleged trafficking in various illicit drugs and substances.
The Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, made this known in a statement on in Abuja.
Babafemi said that operatives, who were acting on intelligence, intercepted a consignment of 11.90 kilogram of heroin, and 500 grammes of skunk, concealed in deep freezers, at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport Ikeja, Lagos.
He said that the drugs were part of a cargo that arrived from South Africa on Tuesday, onboard an Ethiopian airline, via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
He also said that the agency’s sniffer dogs were deployed to locate the area the illicit drugs were hidden in the cargo, and they immediately identified the cartons packed in the deep freezers
