NDLEA Intercepts 101 Parcels of Cocaine at MMIA

The National Drug Law And Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has intercepted and seized 101 parcels of cocaine at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.

The drugs, according to a statement on Sunday by the spokesman of the agency, Mr. Femi Babafemi were concealed in children’s duvets and were imported by a 52-year-old Brazilian returnee, Akudirinwa Hilary Uchenna.

Uchenna who hails from Oru East Local Government Area of Imo State was subsequently arrested at the D-Arrival Hall of the Lagos Airport on his arrival from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha aboard a Qatar Airline flight.

The 101 parcels of cocaine weighed 13.2 kilograms and concealed in check-in bag.
According to NDLEA, “During a preliminary interview, Uchenna, who claimed to be a carpenter, confessed that he was to be paid N5 million for trafficking the drug after successfully delivering the consignment in Lagos".

Similarly, the statement also revealed that the agency through her operatives in Enugu seized big pellets of skunk concealed in detergent containers at the Akanu Ibiam International Airport, AIIA, Enugu.
The suspect, a 37-year-old South African returnee, Ezekwesili Afamefune, was responsible for the drugs which weighed 730grams aboard an Ethiopian Airlines flight from Johannesburg, South Africa via Addis Ababa.

Part of the statement reads, “A cross - border drug trafficker, Stanley Chibuzor, 21, was on Friday 8th April arrested by officers of the Marine Unit of NDLEA stationed at Oron beach, Oron, Akwa Ibom state. The suspect, who hails from Ihiala, Anambra State was nabbed with 11,190 tablets of Tramadol during the outward clearance of passengers traveling to Cameroon.

“In Ondo State, a drug dealer who produces and sells skuchies, Oluwaseun Agboola, 25, was arrested on Thursday 7th April, at his Igoba, Second Gate, Akure residence where 73 bottles of skuchies weighing 77kg stocked in his kitchen were recovered.

Skuchies are usually a mixture of Tramadol, Cannabis sativa, Codeine, Black Currant (popularly called Zobo) and water”.

The NDLEA operatives had also seized 746.25 kilograms of cannabis at Akala, Mushin on Saturday,

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