At the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, two Nigerians and two British nationals have been detained for drug trafficking.
The suspects, Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra and Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon, were apprehended by NDLEA agents.
Femi Babafemi, a NDLEA spokesman, made this known in a statement on Sunday.
According to him, the suspects were attempting to smuggle 92 bags of Loud, a powerful strain of cannabis that was 51.10 kg at the time of their arrest on May 22 into Nigeria.
Two British nationals have been detained by NDLEA agents for attempting to smuggle 92 bags of Loud, a powerful strain of cannabis weighing 51.10kg through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos, along with Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra, Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon, and two Nigerians, Shonowo Oluwaseun Imole and Ofuoma Omokaro Ayo
Based on processed intelligence on Thursday, May 15, Alexander was detained with the consignment upon his arrival at the MMIA on a Qatar Airline flight from Doha.
According to Babafemi, “He was allowed to pass through the security control to the car park, where the owner of the cargo, Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon, who is a Nigerian British, was waiting in an SUV with his relationship Shonowo Oluwaseun Imole and the vehicle’s driver, Ofuoma Omokaro Ayobami, to receive the courier.”
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At the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers, and the Apapa seaport, Lagos, the anti-narcotics agency found six million pills of opioids, namely: tamol 225 mg, tapentadol 225 mg, and carisoprodol 225 mg, as well as 332, 000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of N6.52 billion.
The Apapa and Onne ports’ surveillance of new trafficking routes by drug cartels, which necessitated the placement of containers on a watch-list for a 100 percent inspection, led to the seizures.
At the Lagos-based Murtala Muhammed International Airport, NDLEA agents detained a shipment of marijuana that was hidden inside packages labeled as plantain chips.
Babafemi urged Nigerians to be cautious when accepting travel packages.
According to a report posted on X on Monday, “Narco-trend update: This consignment was packaged as plantain chips, but a skunk was hidden inside one of their most recent seizures at Lagos airport,” he wrote.
Source: Channels TV
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