The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has arrested Ejiofor Chiwuzie, a dealer in automobile spare parts. He was caught trying to send drugs out of Lagos.
Mr. Femi Babafemi, who speaks for the NDLEA, shared this news on Sunday in Abuja. He said the drugs were found at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos. They were hidden in LED lamps and metal parts of a sofa.
Ejiofor was arrested on September 24 at the Trade Fair complex in Ojo, Lagos, where he sells car parts. This happened after his cargo was inspected at the airport. The cargo had car parts, lamps, sofa parts, and electronics, which were going to Liberia.
Inside the lamps and sofa legs, officers found 37 small packs of heroin weighing 1.10 kg and four blocks of cannabis called “loud” weighing 1.20 kg. A follow-up operation led to the arrest of two freight agents and then Ejiofor.
In a similar event, the NDLEA stopped other attempts to send drugs like loud, tramadol pills, co-codamol tablets, pentazocine injection, dihydrocodeine, and promethazine tabs through courier companies.
Mr. Babafemi said these drugs were planned for shipment to countries like the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Thailand, and Oman. NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operation stopped these shipments.
A carton with 2.3 kg of loud was going to Thailand. Another 749 grams of tramadol hidden in shoes were headed to Oman, along with 60 ampoules of pentazocine injection going to the United States. Additionally, 200 pills of co-codamol were going to Australia, while 700 tablets of other drugs and 20 pentazocine injections hidden in shoes were meant for the UK. Going to Canada were 58 pentazocine injections hidden in female clothing. All these seizures happened between September 23 and 24 in Lagos.