NDLEA seizes Oman-bound skunk at Abuja airport, intercepts meth in soap

The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 24-year-old passenger travelling to Oman, Etounu Monday, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport in Abuja while attempting to export 1.924kg of skunk concealed in cream tubes.

Monday was arrested on Monday, February 27, 2023, during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight ET 950 at the Abuja airport.

The NDLEA Director, Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, made the disclosure via a statement issued on Sunday.

Babafemi disclosed that the NDLEA operatives, at the Tincan seaport in Lagos, on Friday, March 2023, recovered 244 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 79 kilograms concealed in medium size wooden sound system speakers and packed inside two out of four used vehicles in a container marked CRSU9258348 coming from Toronto via Montreal, Canada.

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He noted that imported vehicles used as cover for the drugs were a 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2009 Honda Ridgeline.

He said the NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation (DOGI) attached to courier firms in Lagos intercepted a consignment of nine parcels of methamphetamine concealed in native black soap, Dudu Osun, heading to Europe.

Reacting to the arrests and seizures, the NDLEA Chairman/Chief Executive Officer, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the officers of the anti-drug agency for their efforts.

Marwa charged them and their counterparts across Nigeria to intensify the ongoing mop-up operations to deny political thugs access to illicit substances ahead of the governorship and House of Assembly elections slated for March 11, 2023.

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