Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted attempts by drug syndicates to export large consignments of cocaine, methamphetamine, and opioids through Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State, and Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, to the United Kingdom, Italy, Turkey, and Qatar.
According to a statement released on Sunday by the agency’s spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, those linked to the consignment have been tracked and arrested, recovering seven thousand, eight hundred pills of tramadol along with other drugs concealed in food and other items on-board to Italy.
Babafemi added that following credible intelligence, NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, alongside their counterparts from the FCT Command, raided a hotel room at the Federal Housing Authority Estate, Lugbe, Abuja, on Friday, November 15, arresting two suspects with 1.8kg of methamphetamine, which they were preparing to take to Qatar.
The NDLEA spokesperson further revealed that operatives also arrested other drug dealers and trans-border drug traffickers and seized their consignments in Edo and Kwara states, and Lagos states.
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