The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested a woman with 100 wraps of heroin and two parcels of the same substance at the departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos.
This was revealed by the Director of Media and Advocacy at the NDLEA Headquarters, Abuja, Mr Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday.
The woman, identified as Mrs Nnadi Nora Chinyere, was arrested during an outward clearance of passengers on the Qatar Airways flight to Florentine, Italy on August 3. She had concealed the drugs in five containers of hair relaxer cream.
Mr Babafemi also declared that on August 5, narcotic officers on routine patrol intercepted another consignment of 25.8 kilograms of cocaine and cannabis concealed inside foodstuffs going to London at the NAHCO export warehouse. On examination, 2.3kg of cocaine and 23.5kg of compressed cannabis were discovered inside.
Also, during a patrol operation along Akure-Owo road, a team of operatives from Owo Area command of the Agency equally intercepted a bus from Lagos en route Owo to Ibilo, Kogi State on August 7.
According to the statement, on Friday, August 13, a suspected fake soldier, Adeyemi Segun Olamide, was also arrested in Maiduguri, Borno State with 650grams of skunk on the same day.
Two days earlier, an ex-staff sergeant in the Nigerian Army, Muffat Ekong and one Frank Iredia Obamwonyi had been arrested with 286.3kilograms of cannabis in Ogwashi Uku, Delta State on their way to Enugu.
Chairman/Chief Executive of the NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (rtd), commended the officers and men of the MMIA command as well as their counterparts in various states for the huge seizures and arrests.
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