The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized 1, 205, 260 pills of opioids in two interdiction operations in Kogi and Gombe States by its operatives.
The agency said it also disrupted the activities of a drug syndicate that operates between Nigeria, East Africaand Europe, with the arrest of two members of the cartel at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos.
It’s spokesman, Femi Babafemi, in a statement in Abuja on Sunday, said operatives at the Lagos airport on Monday 13th March intercepted a member of the drug syndicate, Ejezie Vitus Ifeanyi, during screening of inward passengers on Ethiopian Airline flight from Malawi via Addis Ababa at the arrival hall.
According to the statement, when a search was conducted on him, it was discovered that one of his two bags has a false bottom concealment.
It reads: “During preliminary interview of the suspect, he confessed that a member of the syndicate was waiting at the airport carpark to pick him. An immediate follow up operation led to the arrest of Chukwu Franco Bright, who was waiting in a grey colour Mercedes Benz C180 coupe, marked EKY 973 GQ to receive the drug consignment.
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