{"id":47589,"date":"2021-03-21T16:14:28","date_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:14:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/?p=47589"},"modified":"2021-03-21T16:14:28","modified_gmt":"2021-03-21T15:14:28","slug":"ndlea-floors-drug-suspects-intercepts-200kg-of-hard-drugs-at-three-airports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/sub\/ndlea-floors-drug-suspects-intercepts-200kg-of-hard-drugs-at-three-airports\/","title":{"rendered":"NDLEA Floors Drug Suspects, Intercepts 200kg Of Hard Drugs At Three Airports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Okosun Dennis<\/p>\n<p>Three different attempts by some defiant traffickers to export hard drugs out of the country were thwarted by the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.<\/p>\n<p>In all the foiled attempts, 200 kilogrammes of the illicit substances seized from them.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47591\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG-20210321-WA0008-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47592\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG-20210321-WA0010-169x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"169\" height=\"300\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-47593\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/IMG-20210321-WA0009-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Confirming the arrest, the Director Media and Advocacy of the agency, Femi Babafemi said in Abuja on Sunday that at the Lagos airport, a 41-year-old Adewuyi Olayinka was arrested while trying to export 650 grammes of cocaine wrapped in two parcels to the United Kingdom through the SAHCO export shed of the MMIA cargo, Ikeja.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Commander, MMIA Command of the NDLEA, Ahmadu Garba, the drug was concealed in dry local pepper and herbal concoction popularly called \u2018agbo\u2019<\/p>\n<p>In the same vein, 107 kilogrammes of hard drug suspected to be Khat has been seized at the cargo shed of the Kano airport while being exported to Canada.<\/p><div data-ad-id=\"32665\" style=\"text-align:center; margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px;float:none;\" class=\"afw afw_ad_image afw_ad afwadid-32665  \">\r\n                                                            <div style=\"font-size:10px;text-align:center;color:#cccccc;\">Advertisement<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.accessbankplc.com\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img decoding=\"async\" height=\"auto\" max-width=\"100%\" src=\"https:\/\/nationalwire.com.ng\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/Banner-1.jpg\"><\/a>\r\n                                                                        \r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<p>According to the Ag. Commander, MAKIA Command of the NDLEA, Mohammed Ajiya, &#8220;the drug, which weighed 107kgs was concealed in golden colour nylon bags covered with textile materials and labelled tea with a view to deceiving and misleading our officers.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The so-called tea arose the suspicion of officers at the cargo shed who insisted that it must be subjected to laboratory analysis and test before it will be allowed to go, because the said tea came from Lagos by road to Kano and our operatives wondered why the owner did not ship it via Murtala Mohammed Airport, Lagos.<\/p>\n<p>However, the agency had to delay the shipment until sample was taken and sent to our forensic lab for analysis.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, the result came out positive for Khat, it has since been seized and is now in our custody,&#8221; he explained.<\/p>\n<p>Equally, an attempt by a trafficker to export 92.250 kilogrammes of Khat via Turkish Air through the cargo warehouse, Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja, has also been frustrated and the hard drug packed in six cartoons heading to Goussainville in France confiscated.<\/p>\n<p>Kabir Sani Tsakuwa, the NDLEA Commander at the Abuja airport said the clearing agent processing the consignment for export claimed the cargo was dried moringa leaves as stated in the airway bill but upon laboratory tests, it turned out to be hard drug.<\/p>\n<p>Chairman\/Chief Executive of the lead anti-drug agency, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd) commended the Commanders, men and officers at the three international airports Commands for their vigilance and efforts to secure Nigerians and citizens of destination countries from the menace of illicit drugs.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three different attempts by some defiant traffickers to export hard drugs out of the country were thwarted by the officers of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, (MMIA), Lagos; Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja and Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport, Kano.<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,17],"tags":[3354],"coauthors":[2391],"class_list":["post-47589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","","category-crime","category-news","tag-drug-trafficking"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v18.9 - 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