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NDLEA Finds 1.7m Opioid Pills In Noodles, Others At Lagos Airport
The NDLEA has found 1.7 million opioid pills in noodles and other items at the Lagos airport.
Eko Hot Blog reports that the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) intercepted at least 1,760,460 pills of tramadol and other opioids hidden in noodles packs and other items at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA, Ikeja, Lagos as well as in Gombe State.
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The NDLEA made the disclosure in a statement issued by its spokesperson, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday.
He disclosed that over 600,000 pills of Tramadol 225mg coming from Karachi, Pakistan in two separate shipments on Ethiopian Airlines flights were intercepted by NDLEA operatives at the SAHCO import shed of the same airport on Monday, December 12, and Tuesday, December 13.
The NDLEA spokesperson added that 5,960 pills of Rohypnol concealed in 60 packs of indomie noodles going to Johannesburg, South Africa were also seized at the SAHCO export shed on Wednesday, December 14.
“A female freight agent, Olaleye Adeola has already been arrested in connection with the noodles consignment,” the statement reads.
Similarly, a trader at Balogun market in Lagos Island, Akunne Chibuzor Tochukwu was on Tuesday, December 13, arrested in collaboration with the Zone 2 Police Headquarters, Lagos over his attempt to export a Tramadol consignment to Dubai, UAE.
The consignment was seized at the Lagos airport by NDLEA operatives on 25th November while a market labourer, Oke Abosede Ronke whose services were requested to convey the drug for export had earlier been arrested.
Equally, the NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Sunday, December 11, intercepted a truck and a bus conveying 113 jumbo bags of cannabis sativa weighing 4,802.84 kilograms around the VGC estate area of Ajah while three suspects: Taofeek Yusuf; Ifeanyi Okorie and Israel Nwachukwu were arrested in connection with the seizures.
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“In Gombe state, a total of 1,154,500 pills of Tramadol, Rohypnol and Exol being transported from Onitsha, Anambra state to Gombe by a truck driver, Umar Hassan, 28, was seized on Thursday 15th Dec. at Bye pass area of Gombe by a team of NDLEA officers following credible intelligence,” the statement added.
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