Businessman Found With 93 Wraps Of Heroin At Airport

Sheriff Egbo Ally, a 40-year-old ‘businessman’ from Madrid, Spain, was arrested at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, NAIA, Abuja while attempting to board an Air France flight to Paris, France, after NDLEA agents discovered he had ingested illicit drugs.

According to a statement released by Femi Babafemi, the anti-drug agency’s spokesperson, Egbo, the businessman was arrested on Saturday, October 14th, after a body scanner revealed he had wraps of illicit drugs in his stomach.

‘’He was subsequently placed under observation at the Agency’s exhibit recovery room where he excreted 93 pellets of heroin weighing 2.222 kilograms. In his statement, the suspect claimed he works at a chicken hatchery farm in Madrid, Spain and also into the drug trafficking business,” the statement read.

In the same vein, NDLEA agents seized 500,000 tramadol 225mg pills branded as tapentadol on Monday, October 16th, at the NAHCO imports shed of the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, MMIA Ikeja Lagos. The cargo was supposed to be a transit cargo to Monrovia, Liberia, and was shipped from India via Qatar Airways with airwaybill number MAWB 319-01227236. The lid was blown open, however, thanks to the collaboration and real-time intelligence-sharing mechanisms between the NDLEA and its Liberian counterpart.

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In addition, an attempt by Ngene Chinecherem Oscar, a passenger on Qatar Airways bound for Muscat, Oman, to export 11.100kgs of skunk and 600grams of tramadol concealed in foodstuffs through the Lagos airport was foiled by NDLEA officers, who arrested him and seized the illicit substances.

On the same day, NDLEA officers from the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations, DOGI, attached to courier companies intercepted 1kg methamphetamine concealed in containers of body cream bound for New Zealand, as well as 2.5kgs cocaine and phenacetin concealed in the walls of a carton bound for Saudi Arabia.

On Wednesday, October 18th, another courier company in Lagos made two more seizures: 112 grams of Dimethyl Sulfone and 583 grams of Cocaine and phenacetin. While the Dimethyl Sulfone was hidden in the hollow of a motor driving shaft bound for New Zealand, the Cocaine and Phenacetin were concealed in a bottle of body cream bound for Saudi Arabia.

On Sunday, October 15th, operatives in Imo state intercepted a Mercedes Benz container truck marked ABN 418 YN parked in an isolated area along the Owerri-Onitsha expressway. A search of the abandoned truck yielded 168 bags of skunk weighing 1, 854 kilograms.