NDLEA Arrests Two Pakistanis With Cocaine At Lagos Airport, And Two Other Wanted Drug Kingpins (Photos)
Category: Crime News
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have
arrested two Pakistani businessmen at the Murtala Muhammed International
Airport, MMIA, Lagos with 8 kilograms of cocaine concealed in a public address
system while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Lahole, Pakistan
via Doha.
Spokesperson of the agency, Femi Babafemi, in a
statement on Sunday, November 6, said the two suspects: Asif Muhammed, 45 and
Hussain Naveed, 57, who hold Nigerian residence permits suspected to be fake
are frequent travelers to Nigeria under the guise of doing textile
business.
They were arrested on Saturday 5th November at the Lagos
airport barely a week after they came to Nigeria, which is, Sunday 30th
October.
Operatives at the SAHCO import shed of the airport on Friday 4th
November seized 13 cartons of Tramadol 225mg and 200mg imported from Karachi,
Pakistan.
The consignment has a total weight of 465.10kg and
642,800 pills of the pharmaceutical opioid.
Meanwhile, two
businessmen who have been on the run for months over their alleged involvement
in drug trafficking, have been arrested by anti-narcotic officers assigned to
track them.
Nnebo Ikechukwu Christopher who has been wanted for his role in
the importation of 40 cartons containing 346,800 pills of Co-codamol, a brand
of paracetamol with Codeine seized at the cargo wing of the MMIA local airport
since March 2022, was arrested on Thursday 3rd Nov.
In the same
vein, operatives on the trail of an automobile parts dealer, Omeje Oliver
(a.k.a David Mark) since April eventually arrested him on Monday 31st October
in Enugu where he fled to, after abandoning his business at Aspanda, Trade
Fair Complex Lagos.
He was wanted in connection with the seizure
of 600 grams of heroin concealed inside soles of ladies foot-wears going to
Liberia on April 16.
On the same day Omeje was arrested, operatives at the SAHCO export shed
of the Lagos airport intercepted 550 grams of cannabis loud concealed in
machine parts going to Dubai, UAE, while the sender, Ogbure Victor Ifeanyi was
later arrested.
In the same vein, operatives on Thursday 3rd Nov
stormed the Egbeta forest in Ovia North East where they recovered 112 bags of
cannabis and 8 bags of seeds with a combined weight of 1,598.5kgs, while
another team evacuated 27 bags of same substance weighing 314kgs at Amahor
village in Igueben LGA.
While commending the officers and men of the MMIA, Edo and Kaduna Commands of
the Agency for the successful operations in the past week, Chairman of NDLEA,
Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa urged them and their counterparts across the
country not to rest on their oars until all drug syndicates operating in
Nigeria are completely dismantled and the last gram of illicit substance taken
out of the streets.
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