The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has captured a suspected drug trafficker who claimed to be a building engineer while attempting to take delivery of a consignment from South Africa.
The NDLEA spokesman, Femi Babafemi, said in a statement on Sunday in Abuja that the illicit drugs were concealed in pressure machines.
Mr Babafemi said the 42-year-old suspect was arrested on December 2 at Okeyson Motor Park in Enugu.
“The suspect showed up to collect three units of pressure machines inside, which were hidden parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilogrammes,” he said.
The consignments, he said, had arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport (MMIA) Ikeja, Lagos, import shed on November 29.
“Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA strategic command of the agency monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes.
“Officers trailed the shipment to a logistics company warehouse outside the airport, where it was to be collected by the consignee.
“The importer, however, changed the collection point to Enugu at the last minute.
“As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow-up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments,” he said.
In a related development, he said, no fewer than 511,000 pills of tramadol were recovered from a Toyota Siena vehicle along Hildi-Askira Uba Highway in Adamawa by NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of December 6
Mr Babafemi said that the vehicle’s occupants had detoured on sighting the NDLEA team and abandoned the vehicle with the consignments after a distance.
He said this after noticing the operatives were on their trail.
In another development in Ekiti, the NDLEA arrested two suspects on the Ise-Emure road in a J5 bus marked EPE 958 XJ.
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