Brazil Returnee Arrested With Cocaine, Malian, 15 Others Nabbed For Drug Trafficking In Lagos | Sahara Reporters

December 11, 2022It said that the drug was brought into Nigeria on December 5, 2022, by a Brazil returnee, Nwadinobi Charles Uchemadu from Sao Paulo, Brazil via Doha on a Qatar Airways flight.

NDLEA in a statement issued on Sunday by its Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed that Uchemadu was arrested by its operatives at the Lagos airport during inward clearance of passengers on the Qatar Airways flight following the discovery of three parcels of cocaine weighing 2.70 kg and factory sealed in parts of his travel bag.

"In the same vein, parcels of cannabis weighing 6.30 kg concealed in sound systems going to Malabo, Equatorial Guinea through the SAHCO export shed of the airport were also seized on Thursday, 8th December by the operatives who initially arrested a freight agent, Joseph Obiji involved and later the following day, Friday, 9th December nabbed another agent, Mbanu Ifeanyi Andrew in a follow-up operation at ASPAMDA market, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo area of Lagos.

"This is even as officers of the Directorate of Seaports Operations of the Agency arrested a Malian, Dembele Ousmane on Monday, 5th December with 32,400 capsules of tramadol 225 mg concealed in factory-packed buckets of custard while attempting to travel to Mali via boat at Ebute-Ero Jetty in Lagos.

"The following day, Monday, 5th December, another set of two suspects: Abdullahi Bala and Ibrahim Wade were intercepted along Koko-Kebbi Road in a Dyna Truck loaded with 114 bags of the same substance weighing 1,140 kg concealed under crates of soft drinks.

Source: Holiday News (holidaynews.net)

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