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Operatives of the Nigerian Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have apprehended suspected members of Drug Trafficking Organisations (DTOS) who attempted to traffic illicit substances to Europe at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, in Lagos.
NDLEA Spokesperson Femi Babafemi, in a statement issued on Sunday, disclosed that two of the consignments heading to Italy were to be moved through the Lagos airport, where two suspects linked to the shipments were arrested.
NDLEA intercepts opioids, meth in carton walls, winter jackets, cream at Lagos airport
– Recovers large consignments of illicit drugs in Lagos, Kano, Kaduna, Edo, Oyo, FCT, Taraba, Adamawa raids
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According to the NDLEA spokesperson, one of the suspects, 37-year-old Friday Ehianuka, was travelling to Rome, Italy, on Friday, when he was intercepted while attempting to board an Ethiopian Airlines flight with 2,698 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in containers of skin light body cream, all packed in his luggage.
Ehianuka reportedly told NDLEA operatives that he was to be paid a negotiated fee in Euros if he had succeeded in trafficking the consignment to Italy.
Babafemi added that NDLEA operatives also intercepted a passenger who was identified as Christian Agbonhese while he was attempting to board a Lufthansa Airlines flight to Milan, Italy.
Upon a thorough search of his luggage, no fewer than 23,150 pills of tramadol 225mg, 4,000 tablets of tapentadol 250mg and 1,320 pills of tramadol 100mg, all concealed in two large winter jackets, bringing the total number of opioids recovered from him to 28,470 pills. The 38- year-old Agbonhese is also a resident of Milan,” said Babafemi.
NDLEA operatives also intercepted two parcels of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 1 kg, hidden in a carton shipped to Lagos from the United States.
Also thwarted was an attempt to export 158 grams of methamphetamine concealed in the walls of a carton to New Zealand at a courier firm in Lagos on Monday.
