Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted large consignments of illicit drugs especially cocaine, heroin, metham/phetamine and ephedrine at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.
Efforts of the drug cartel to export the illicit drugs to Dubai, UAE and Europe through various disingenuous modes of concealment was frustrated and those behind the bids have been arrested.
Top on the list of those so far arrested in connection with the seizures is a Nigerian based in Athens, Greece, Iwuozor Edward Chinedu.
According to a statement by the spokesman of the NDLEA, Femi Babafemi, the suspect was debarked from an Ethiopian airline flight on Friday 3rd February after officers in the tarmac team of NDLEA intercepted two bags during a secondary check exercise at the foot of the aircraft.
When the bags were searched in the presence of Chinedu and other airport stakeholders, two big pellets wrapped with foil papers and some sprinkles of pepper were recovered from each of the two sides of one of the bags.
The pellets he said, were used to construct false walls at the sides of the bag while the two parcels contained substances that tested positive to cocaine and heroin with a gross weight of 1.30kgs and 900grams.