Two Nigerians and two British nationals have been arrested for drug trafficking at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.
The suspects, Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra and Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon, were nabbed by operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA).
NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday.
According to him, the suspects were attempting to smuggle into Nigeria 92 bags of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 51.10kg at the time of their arrest on May 22.
Two British nationals: Mhizha Jordan Alexander Tatendra and Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon as well as two Nigerians: Shonowo Oluwaseun Imole and Ofuoma Omokaro Ayobami have been arrested by NDLEA operatives for attempting to smuggle into Nigeria 92 bags of Loud, a strong strain of cannabis weighing 51.10kg through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos.
Alexander was intercepted with the consignment upon his arrival at the MMIA on a Qatar Airline flight from Doha based on processed intelligence on Thursday 15th May.
He was allowed to pass through the security control unhindered and closely monitored by NDLEA operatives to the car park, where the owner of the cargo, Ayedipe Andrew Adejuwon, who is a Nigerian British, was waiting in an SUV along with his relation Shonowo Oluwaseun Imole and the driver of the vehicle, Ofuoma Omokaro Ayobami, to receive the courier, Babafemi stated.
The anti-narcotics agency also intercepted six million pills of opioids namely: tamol 225mg, tapentadol 225mg and carisoprodol 225mg as well as 332,000 bottles of codeine-based cough syrup with a combined street value of N6.52 billion at the Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers and the Apapa seaport, Lagos.
The seizures at the Apapa and Onne ports followed intelligence and tracking of new trafficking routes to ship illicit substances into Nigeria by drug cartels, which necessitated the watch-listing of the containers for 100 percent examination.
Similarly, NDLEA operatives intercepted a shipment of drugs concealed within packages labelled as plantain chips at Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos.
Babafemi admonished Nigerians to exercise vigilance when accepting packages for travel.
Narco-trend update: This consignment was packaged as plantain chips, but inside was a skunk, as discovered by vigilant #ndlea_nigeria officers in one of their latest seizures at Lagos airport, he posted on X.
Always be careful of what you’re given to travel with!
