NDLEA seizes drugs hidden in crayfish, ladies’ shoes at Lagos airport

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have thwarted attempts to export various quantities of methamphetamine and skunk by members of some transnational drug trafficking organisations through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, and courier companies in Lagos State.

The NDLEA officers, who seized the illicit drug consignments concealed in different items at the Lagos airport on Tuesday, September 12, 2023, intercepted an intending passenger going to Oman, Ugwu Peter Tochukwu, while trying to board a Qatar Airways flight.

The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, who made the disclosure in a statement issued on Sunday, September 17, said upon a thorough search of Tochukwu’s luggage, 7.50 kilograms of skunk were discovered concealed inside crayfish mixed with dry bitter leaf.

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Babafemi added that the officers of the agency’s Directorate of Operations and General Investigations attached to some courier companies also intercepted Dubai-bound 2.9 kilograms of skunk and 14 grams of methamphetamine concealed in bags of semovita and soles of ladies’ high heel shoes, respectively.

He disclosed that a Federal High Court sitting in Lagos on Wednesday, September 13, sentenced a drug dealer, Segun Odeyemi, to five years imprisonment for trafficking and dealing in 3,842 kilograms of skunk.

The NDLEA spokesperson stated that Odeyemi was arrested on Saturday, July 1, while conveying 89 jumbo bags of the illicit substance in his truck around the Eleganza area of Ajah Lagos State.

Babafemi noted that the suspect was subsequently charged in suit number FHC/L/388C/2023 presided over by Justice Akintayo Aluko.

Commending the anti-narcotics officers for intensifying their drug control efforts, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), equally applauded the commitment of all the agency’s commands across the country to work with other stakeholders to take the War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) sensitisation lectures and advocacy messages to the communities, schools, worship centres, workplaces, and traditional institutions.

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