The operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) have arrested a 35-year-old woman, Chidinma Chinenye Agbazue, over an alleged attempt to export 20 parcels of cannabis sativa weighing 10.70 kilograms concealed in African salad popularly called Abacha and dried vegetables to Doha, Qatar through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport in the Ikeja area of Lagos state.
The NDLEA officers working in partnership with the operatives of the Department of State Services (DSS) at the Lagos airport arrested Chidinma, an outbound passenger from Lagos to Doha, on Qatar Airways during clearance of passengers at the screening point of terminal 11 of the airport on Thursday, March 28, 2024.
The spokesperson for the anti-drug agency, Femi Babafemi, disclosed this in a statement issued on Sunday, March 31.
Babafemi noted that a preliminary investigation revealed that the woman was based in Qatar but returned to Nigeria in December 2023 for Christmas celebration.
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He said the suspect, preparatory to her return to Doha, was lodged at Club Dice Hotel in the Ikotun area of Lagos where the consignment concealed in Salad and vegetables was handed over to her for trafficking to the Arab country.
The NDLEA spokesman added that two suspects, Monday Okeke and Chigozie Emeka, were arrested by anti-narcotic officers in Oniwaya, Yaba, and Agege area of Lagos, where they recovered from them 842,560 pills of opioids especially tramadol in addition to 15 litres of codeine syrup and 596 grams of Molly on Tuesday, March 26.
Babafemi stated that an attempt by Okeke to bribe the NDLEA officers with N5 million cash was rebuffed while the money was documented as part of exhibits to prosecute the suspects in court.
Commending the anti-narcotic officers for their balanced efforts in the past week, the Chairman/Chief Executive Officer of NDLEA, Brig. Gen. Mohamed Buba Marwa (Retd), equally applauded their counterparts across the country for intensifying their War Against Drug Abuse (WADA) advocacy lectures.
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