NDLEA Intercepts Parcels Of Cocaine, Heroin Enroute Europe

• “This was also accompanied by the discovery of another 200 grams of cocaine intended for London, United Kingdom in the same courier company,’’ he said.

Unaccompanied parcels of cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and cannabis sativa were intercepted by the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) on their way to the United Kingdom, Northern Ireland, Australia, the Maldives, and New Zealand.

Mr Femi Babafemi, NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, made the announcement in Abuja on Tuesday.

According to the Nigerian News Agency (NAN), the drugs were intercepted between Saturday and Monday.

Babafemi, on the other hand, claimed that a notorious trafficker who was behind at least two of the parcels had been apprehended by NDLEA operatives after days of surveillance.

“The seizures were made by undercover narcotics agents working for two international courier companies in Lagos.

“The suspect was tracked after 1kg of cocaine concealed in cream containers and bound for Dublin, Northern Ireland, was intercepted at one of the courier firms in Lagos, resulting in useful confessions during interrogation.

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Babafemi said that in another undercover operation, heroin weighing 320 grams concealed in earrings coming from Congo and going to Australia was seized at a different courier firm in Lagos.

He added that another 390 grams of cocaine hidden in men’s clothing and going to Northern Ireland were intercepted in the same company.

“While 500 grams of cannabis Sativa concealed in automobile parts going to New Zealand was seized at one of the courier companies.’’

He said that 200 grams of methamphetamine hidden inside an award plaque and going to New Zealand with another 200 grams of methamphetamine concealed in a book and going to the Maldives were equally intercepted in another firm.

Babafemi said that besides the arrest of the suspect, efforts were ongoing to track and arrest other traffickers behind the other unaccompanied illicit drugs packaged as parcels for shipment to Europe.

He said that the NDLEA Chairman retired Brig.-Gen. Buba Marwa commended the operatives involved in the operations.

Marwa urged men and officers involved in the various overt and covert operations across the country to continue with the ongoing offensive action until “criminal elements’’ were chased out of the “illicit and damaging trade’’.