- NDLEA has arrested a woman with 100 wraps of heroin at Lagos Airport.
EKOHOTBLOG reports a woman bound for Italy has been arrested by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) with 100 wraps of heroin at the departure hall of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport in Lagos State.
This was disclosed via a statement by the NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Mr. Femi Babafemi, in Abuja on Sunday.
According to the NDLEA Director, the suspect, Mrs. Nnadi Chinyere, was arrested on Tuesday, August 3, 2021, during an outward clearance of passengers on a Qatar Airways flight to Florentine, Italy.
Babafemi stated that the drugs found on the arrested woman were concealed in five containers of a hair relaxer cream.
The NDLEA Director noted that operatives, who had sustained their nationwide offensive action against drug traffickers with strings of arrests and seizures, also intercepted two parcels of the same substance.
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He further disclosed that the operatives of the Lagos Airport Command of the NDLEA intercepted a UK-bound consignment of illicit drugs at the NAHCO export shed of the airport on Thursday, August 12, 2021.
Babafemi stated that further investigation revealed the consignment contained 66.600kg of cannabis Sativa, in addition to 1.600kg heroin and 1.450kg of cocaine with a combined weight of 69.65kilograms, all concealed inside cosmetics.
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