NDLEA nabs Indian lady with drugs at Kano airport

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have intercepted a 42-year-old Indian lady, Neetu Neetu, with 72 parcels of heroin factory sealed in wafer wraps and packaged as chocolates at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano.

The NDLEA Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement on Sunday, March 23, 2025.

Babafemi said the class A drug consignment weighing a total of 11 kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage after a thorough search, following processed credible intelligence, during an inward clearance of Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok, Thailand, via Vietnam and Doha at the arrival hall of the Kano airport on Friday, March 14.

The arrest of Neetu signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders, a bid that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence, Babafemi quoted the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of the NDLEA, Brig Gen Mohamed Buba Marwa (Rtd), as saying in his reaction to Neetu’s arrest.

He added that in another interdiction operation in Kano, NDLEA officers on Thursday, March 20, arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele, with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria-Kano Road.

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The NDLEA spokesman noted: “Based on credible intelligence, welding tools were later used to cut the giant cylinder after which 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg concealed in it were extracted.

“While Sunday Ogar, 40, was nabbed at Gunduwawa area of Kano on Wednesday 19th March with 27kg skunk, a strain of cannabis, a female suspect Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of the state on Tuesday 18th March.”

Babafemi said the NDLEA continued to intensify its War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) social advocacy sensitisation engagements in schools, markets, and worship centres in the past week.

Babafemi listed the activities to include WADA sensitisation lecture to students and staff of Chrisland School, Ikeja, Lagos State; Hakimi Secondary School, Mokwa in State; Marist Comprehensive College, Nteje, Anambra State; Ikole City College, Ikole Ekiti in Ekiti State; Government Day Secondary School, Sunane, Sokoto State; and Government Day Secondary School, Jada in Adamawa State; among others.

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