Crime
NDLEA arrests grandpa with illicit drugs, four others at Lagos Airport
A major importer of loud variant of cannabis from the United States, Abibu Afis Sola and a 63-year-old grandfather who shipped illicit substances to his daughter in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, UAE were among those arrested by NDLEA operatives at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja Lagos.
Abibu was arrested by officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) in connection with a 19.30kg Colorado consignment from Los Angeles, USA, which was intercepted on 30th June at the NAHCO cargo import shed of the Lagos airport.
While Abibu was still being interviewed in custody, a 37.1kg consignment of Loud intercepted on 7th July was also traced to him.
Equally, a freight agent, Miss Njoko Elizabeth, 37, has been arrested for attempting to export 250grams of Tramadol and cannabis to Dubai through the NAHCO export shed.
The drug exhibits were concealed inside some gallons of palm oil and honey, which were packed among food items and hair attachments.
Also at the same Lagos airport, 249,600 tablets of Tramadol 225mg have been recovered from a shipment from India at the SAHCO import shed of the MMIA.
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The consignment that arrived from India via Addis Ababa on an Ethiopian Airlines flight on 4th August was eventually evacuated on Wednesday 17th Aug as an abandoned seizure.
The 63-year-old grandfather behind an intercepted drug exhibit going to Dubai, Afolabi Abideen Kolawole, on 4th Aug was arrested in Ibadan, Oyo state on Thursday 18th August after more than four sets of arrests eventually unraveled him.
He confessed that he was responsible for the concealment and packaging of the cannabis inside the black native soap used as a mode of concealment.
He also admitted this was his second attempt at sending such illicit substances to his daughter, Barakat, in Dubai.
Also, an Italy-bound passenger, Oziengbe Ehighalua Andrew, 55, was on Friday 19th August arrested with 600grams of Tramadol 200mg while attempting to board a Royal Air Maroc flight to Italy, via Casablanca.
In the same vein, seven cartons of khat leaf with a total weight of 295kg have been seized at the NAHCO import shed of the Lagos airport. The consignment came into Nigeria from Tanzania through Cairo on Egypt Air.
In Kaduna, a drug dealer Umar Sanusi was arrested on Friday 12th August during a follow-up operation in Kano and brought back to Kaduna where his consignment of 50 cartons of pregabalin 300mg, containing 750,000 capsules, weighing 375kgs earlier seized along Abuja-Kaduna expressway was counted and weighed in his presence.