Nationwide Drug Legislation Enforcement Company (NDLEA) has arrested a Lagos-based auto components supplier, Ejiofor Chiwuzie, for trying to export consignments of heroin and hashish hidden inside LED rechargeable lamps and the metallic legs of sofas.
In keeping with the company, Chiwuzie tried to smuggle the medicine overseas by the Murtala Muhammed Worldwide Airport (MMIA) in Ikeja, Lagos.
In keeping with Mr. Femi Babafemi, the company’s Director of Media and Advocacy, “Hid contained in the LED lamps and couch legs have been 37 parcels of heroin weighing 1.10 kilograms and 4 blocks of loud, a pressure of hashish, weighing 1.20kg.”
His arrest adopted the seizure of his cargo on the airport’s export shed. Ejiofor was apprehended on the Commerce Honest advanced in Ojo, Lagos, the place he operates as a spare components supplier. The cargo, which was certain for Liberia, contained auto components, rechargeable lamps, and electronics, amongst which the medicine have been hidden.
The NDLEA swiftly performed follow-up operations resulting in the arrest of two freight brokers who assisted in delivery the consignment. Ejiofor was later taken into custody because the mastermind behind the smuggling try.
Drug smuggling makes an attempt
In a continued crackdown on drug trafficking, the NDLEA has thwarted a number of makes an attempt by smuggling networks to export unlawful medicine, hid by courier providers, to varied locations worldwide. Among the many medicine seized have been consignments of heroin, hashish, tramadol capsules, co-codamol tablets, and different managed substances.
In one of many important operations, NDLEA officers foiled an try to smuggle 2.3 kilograms of loud, a potent pressure of hashish, hid in a carton destined for Thailand. One other 749 grams of tramadol capsules have been hidden contained in the soles of regionally made footwears certain for Oman. Different drug consignments, resembling pentazocine injections and co-codamol tablets, have been intercepted en path to the USA, United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia.
In one other high-profile arrest, the NDLEA took into custody Alhaji Bashir Mohammed Talba, a neighborhood chief in Badagry. His arrest adopted the seizure of 226 kilograms of hashish discovered at his residence. His household, together with two wives and a son, had additionally been implicated within the unlawful drug commerce.
The wave of arrests continued throughout varied states. In Kogi, NDLEA operatives intercepted a truck carrying over 2,000 kilograms of hashish on the Okene-Lokoja-Abuja expressway.
In Lagos, NDLEA officers recovered almost 10 kilograms of hashish and a harmful mix generally known as “monkey tail,” a fermented combination of hashish and dry gin. Additional south, in Rivers State, 1,500 cartons of codeine-based cough syrup, containing a complete of 150,000 bottles, have been intercepted on the Onne Port.
