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… As trafficker excretes 92 wraps of cocaine at Abuja airport, loses $4,000
Bisi ABASS
Inter-agency collaboration between the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, and the Nigerian Customs is yielding bountiful results in their efforts at reducing crime in the country.
At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos, no fewer than One Million and Ninety-Nine Thousand (1,099,000) tablets of Tramadol 225mg have been seized by operatives of the agencies.
The pharmaceutical opioids packed in 50 cartons weighing 2,058.90kg, were imported from Pakistan via Addis-Ababa on Ethiopian Airways. The consignment was concealed among other non-controlled pharmaceuticals.
Also, a freight agent, Aliyu Abubakar was on Friday 9th Sept. arrested at the NAHCO export shed of the airport over attempt to export a
consignment of cannabis concealed inside bottles of Caro white body lotion.
Attempts by drug cartels to export 7.805 kilograms of crystal methamphetamine to the United States and Australia were also thwarted by NDLEA operatives attached to some courier companies in Lagos.
The meth consignments were concealed in the linings of the local fabric, wooden statutes, printer cartridges, handle of travel bag, and cassava flakes.
In a big haul, operatives of the NDLEA, arrested Okolie Paulinus Nwabueke, a Brazilian returnee and father of two, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja.
Nwabueke was arrested for importing Ninety Two (92) wraps of cocaine, which he ingested and eventually excreted after days under observation in NDLEA’s facility.
Nwabueke, 53-year-old trafficker hails from Mmaku village, Awgu Local Government Area of Enugu State.
The trafficker was arrested on Friday 2nd September upon his arrival on Qatar Airline flight en route Brazil-Doha-Abuja.
He claimed to have left Nigeria to Mozambique in 2004 and finally relocated to Brazil in 2017, where he obtained a residence permit before deciding to import the illicit substance for a $4,000 fee.
At the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, MAKIA, Kano, a 42-year-old man, Aliyu Bello Kwasare, was arrested for attempting to export a consignment of a new psychoactive substance, Akuskura, to Saudi Arabia.
The indigene of Kware LGA, Sokoto, who lives in Goron Dutse area of Kano, was arrested on Monday 5th September during the outward clearance of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight to Riyadh.
Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) in his reaction to the arrests and seizures, commended the officers
for their resilience and charged them and their compatriots in other commands to remain focused and vigilant in their areas of responsibility.
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