The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a Brazil-based passenger, Uba Samuel, at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) with sachets of cocaine weighing 633grams concealed in his footwear and toothpaste tube.
The suspect was arrested by the anti-drug operatives on Friday on arrival aboard Ethiopian Airline flight from Sao Paulo via Addis Ababa to Lagos with the sachets of cocaine.
The suspect, who claimed to be a shoemaker and barber, hails from Umunneochi, Abia State.
The arrest was disclosed via a statement issued and made available to The Star on Sunday by NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi.
Babafemi noted that the arrested Brazil-based passenger while accepting ownership of the drug, said he used his shoe-making knowledge to conceal the drug in his pair of sandals.
The NDLEA spokesman added that Uba, who is a regular traveller, confessed he bought the drug to sell at a market in Abia.
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“Meanwhile, more illicit substances were recovered in raid operations in other parts of the country.
“In Gadaka village of Fika LGA, Yobe state, operatives arrested one Hassan Usman with a total of 22, 110 tablets of Tramadol, D5 and Exol 5, while one Ali Mohammed was nabbed in a commercial vehicle coming from Kano to Maiduguri with 40 blocks of cannabis weighing 33kg.
“Also arrested on the Kano-Maiduguri route was a driver Ibrahim Khalil Idris with 60 packets of Tramadol, all on Tuesday 12th April.
“In Kogi State, 750 blocks of Cannabis weighing 750kg were seized from two suspects: Hassan Adamu, 25, and Abdulmalik Abdullahi, 24, along Okene-Abuja highway.
“The drug exhibits were concealed inside fabricated panels of a Ford bus,” Babafemi stated.
Speaking, the Chairman/Chief Executive of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), commended the officers of the Agency for disrupting desperate attempts by drug cartels to traffic dangerous drugs into Nigeria and across the country.
He said the huge seizures at the airports will send a strong message to drug barons that Nigeria will no longer be their safe destination or transit route.
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