The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) says it has arrested two businessmen – Ihejirika Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Victory...
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency says it has arrested two businessmen – Ihejirika Emmanuel and Iwuagwu Victory – at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos for drug trafficking.
“In the same vein, NDLEA operatives at the Lagos airport on Thursday 17th October intercepted a 26-year-old businessman Iwuagwu Ikedi Victory coming from Brazil via Addis Ababa during the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian Airlines flight. His body scan revealed the ingestion of illicit drugs. When he was put under observation, he excreted a pellet of cocaine weighing 22 grams.
“Similarly, at One Port Complex in Port Harcourt, Rivers state, not less 7,200,000 pills of Royal 225mg Tapentadol and Carisoprodol worth N3.6 billion in street value were seized from a watch-listed container from India. The agency added that in Edo state, a raid at Illushi forest in Esan south-east LGA led to the destruction of 10,590.36kg cannabis spread on 4.236144 hectares of farmland.
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