VIDEO: NDLEA intercepts cocaine in bathing soaps at Enugu airport

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 27-year-old man, Madu Chukwuemeka Miracle, at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, Enugu, on arrival from Nairobi, Kenya via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia with cocaine.

The NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this via a statement made available to The Star on Sunday.

Babafemi said a search of Miracle’s three bags revealed 76 foreign bathing soaps made with cocaine in one of the bags, while another has two plastic bottles containing cream like liquid, which tested positive for cocaine.

“The cocaine bars weigh 10.650 kilograms while the liquid cocaine weighs 2.496 kilograms, bringing the total weight to 13.146 kilograms,” he stated.

The NDLEA spokesman added that the NDLEA operatives intercepted 15 cartons containing 802,000 pills of Tramadol imported from Dubai, United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Karachi, Pakistan, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State.

Babefemi disclosed that while 10 cartons of Tramadol 225mg came in from Dubai on Ethiopian Airlines flight, four cartons of 100mg and a carton of 225mg Tramadol came from Karachi, Pakistan on another Ethiopian Airlines flight last Wednesday.

He stated that on the same day, the NDLEA operatives intercepted cans of tomato paste used to conceal 36 pellets of cannabis with a gross weight of 21.30 kilograms going to the United Kingdom.

He said a cargo agent, Sodehinde Akinwale, has been arrested in connection with the seizure.

The NDLEA spokesperson noted that the operatives of the anti-drug agency attached to the NAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport, on Friday, seized five cartons of dried khat leaves, weighing 107.70kgs that came in from Bangkok, Thailand through Dubai on an Emirates Airline flight.

Babafemi added that a follow-up operation on the seizure of 11.90kgs methamphetamine concealed in the heads of dried fish going to Dubai, UAE, on August 5, has led to the arrest of a 30-year-old bricklayer, Babatunde Quadri Mamowora, on Thursday, October 27 in Sango Ota area of Ogun State in collaboration with officers of the Nigerian Security and Civil Defense Corps (NSCDC) in the area.

He disclosed that the operatives of the anti-drug agency, on stop and search operation along Okene-Abuja highway in Kogi State, on Thursday, intercepted a Chisco branded bus coming from Lagos to Abuja with a consignment of 32.9kgs Meth packaged as tubers of yam; 376 grams of cocaine and 215 grams of heroin.

“While the bus driver, Chief Pascal Chigozie Nmaram was promptly arrested, a follow-up operation in Abuja same day led to the arrest of the recipient of the illicit cargo, Mr. Ikenna Jude Akunne who confessed he was detailed to travel with the consignment to Spain the following day, Friday 28th October through the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja,” Babafemi stated.

Speaking on the strings of arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the officers of the anti-drug agency for their unrelenting commitment to the presidential mandate to clear Nigerian forests and communities of illicit drugs in whatever form.

Marwa further charged them to remain steadfast and upright at all times.

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