NDLEA SEIZES COCAINE AND HEROIN WORTH N30 BILLION AT MURTALA MUHAMMED AIRPORT
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) has seized cocaine and heroin worth N30 billion at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos State.
Eons Intelligence gathered that the drugs were seized from a certain Onyejegbu Ifesinachi Jennifer, a 33-year-old lady, who arrived in Nigeria on Wednesday from Sao Paulo, Brazil.
The seizure weighing 26.840 kilograms is said to be the biggest single seizure from an individual in the past 15 years.
“Field test was conducted on the recovered substances and proved positive to Cocaine and weighed 26.850kilograms. The suspect who is a hair stylist and based in Brazil was interviewed and she confessed to have agreed to smuggle the hard drug for the sum of N2 million only.
“Although she refused to disclose the names of her associates, she mentioned that she was asked to hand over the drugs to another person. The street value of this singular seizure is put at over N21 million.
“The official further disclosed that the development came on the heels of a similar one recorded two days earlier at the airport, precisely on January 25, 2021 when a red left-over luggage was declared to the NDLEA operatives as a left over at the E- arrival hall after the inward clearance of passengers on Ethiopian airline," an official of the NDLEA said.
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