NDLEA Nabs India-bound Businessman With 9.40kg Heroin
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National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA), has apprehended a businessman, Kingsley Celestino at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja Lagos with over 9.40 kilograms of heroin concealed in false bottoms of his two travelling bags.
The suspect who was in a business class passenger on Qatar Airline flight was captured at Terminal 2 of the MMIA on March 04, 2023 on his way to India.
The suspect who hailed from Nnewi South local government area of Anambra State, was travelling with a Guinean international passport.
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It was gathered that the suspect always traveled to India on business class tickets but claimed he engaged on clothing business between Nigeria and India.
According to NDLEA spokesperson, Femi Babafem, it was established that he obtained the Guinean international passport in Guinea Bissau, where he alleged that his mother hails from.
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Similarly, a 24-year-old passenger travelling to Oman, Etounu Monday, was obstructed at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja on February 27, 2023, during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight ET 950 while attempting to export 1.924kg of skunk concealed in cream tubes.
At the Tincan seaport, Lagos, NDLEA operatives on March 03, 2023, recovered 244 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 79 kilograms concealed in medium size wooden sound system speakers packed inside two out of four used vehicles in a container marked CRSU9258348 coming from Toronto via Montreal, Canada.
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The imported vehicles used as cover for the drugs are a 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2009 Honda Ridgeline.
Similarly, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms in Lagos intercepted a consignment of nine parcels of methamphetamine concealed in native black soap, Dudu Osun, heading to Europe.
In Adamawa State, the house of a wanted notorious drug dealer, Mamudu Njobdi at Sebore, Gyalla road Dougada ward, Mubi was raided in the early hours of Monday 27th February, where he was arrested and drug exhibits recovered.
The 31-year-old suspect was earlier arrested on Wednesday 22nd Feb at his drug joint in Kolere water board but mobilized thugs to attack NDLEA officers and in the process escaped with exhibits.