The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Milan Italy-based Nigerian, Gabriel Michael, over alleged drug trafficking.
Michael was apprehended by NDLEA operatives at the departure hall of terminal 1 of the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja in Lagos State.
The suspect was arrested while attempting to board an Air France flight to Italy.
NDLEA spokesman Femi Babafemi, who disclosed this via a statement on Sunday, said Michael was found to have concealed a total of 24,480 pills of tramadol 100mg, 200mg and 225mg, which the suspect claimed he was going to sell for 19,520 euros.
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Babafemi added that 160,200 bottles of codeine-based syrup were discovered in a 40ft container during a joint examination of the shipment by the anti-narcotic officers and other security agencies at the West Africa Container Terminal (WACT) Port Harcourt Ports Complex, Onne, Rivers State, on Thursday, September 4.
He noted that the container which has 220 cartons of ceramic sanitary wares used as cover for the codeine syrup was one of the shipments watch-listed and tracked by a special operations unit of NDLEA while the illicit consignment has an estimated street value of over N1.1 billion.
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