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From Dubai with cocaine candies

By Odita Sunday
03 May 2016   |   3:47 am
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday discovered 193 wraps of cocaine inside packs of sweets at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.
The whitish substance concealed in sweets tested positive to cocaine

The whitish substance concealed in sweets tested positive to cocaine

NDLEA arrests two suspects at Lagos airport

The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) yesterday discovered 193 wraps of cocaine inside packs of sweets at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Lagos.

The whitish substance concealed in sweets tested positive to cocaine and weighed 3.230kilogrammes. Anti-narcotics officials discovered the drugs in the luggage of a 24-year-old female passenger from Dubai, United Arab Emirates. A suspected member of the drug cartel was also arrested.

The NDLEA commander at the Lagos Airport, Mr. Ahmadu Garba, said the suspect, who hails from Edo State, was found in possession of the drug while a suspected member of the drug cartel in Lagos was successfully traced and apprehended.

“One Igbainoba Uche Rose, who concealed 3.230kilogrammes inside sweets was apprehended at the arrival hall during inward screening of passengers. A suspected member of the cartel, Ofor Kamsochukwu Chimezie, was arrested on a follow-up operation. The suspects are being investigated,” Ahmadu stated.

During interrogation, Rose said she works as a clerical officer after her secondary school education. “I work as a clerical staff after I completed my secondary school because there was no money to further my studies.

“I have suffered hardship in life but a man offered to assist me establish my personal business. He promised to pay me half a million naira. That was how I got involved in this problem,” Rose said.

The Chairman of NDLEA, Muhammad Mustapha Abdallah, warned drug traffickers to desist from their criminal acts.

According to Abdallah, “drug criminals should shun their unlawful act because the agency has perfected strategies to detect narcotics notwithstanding how cleverly they were concealed.

“Recent drug seizures clearly reflect the reformation of the NDLEA as an intelligence-led organization. We are determined to trace major traffickers behind the scene and prosecute the barons,” Abdallah warned.

The NDLEA Chairman assured Nigerians that no drug trafficker would go unpunished. In his words, “we are working hard to perfect the practice of aggressive follow-up on every case from the first to the last person behind every case of drug trafficking. Drug barons shall have no escape route. This way, drug trafficking will either be drastically reduced or completely eliminated from our society.”

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