NDLEA Arrests Indian woman with 72 parcels of heroin in chocolate wraps
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency, NDLEA, have intercepted a 42-year-old Indian woman, Ms. Neetu Neetu at the Mallam Aminu Kano International Airport in Kano with 72 parcels of heroin packaged as chocolates.
The class A drug consignment weighing 11 kilograms was recovered from Neetu’s luggage on March 14 after her arrival aboard Qatar Airways flight from Bangkok, Thailand via Vietnam and Doha.
The NDLEA said in a statement by its spokesman, Femi Babafemi that Neetu’s arrest signifies a growing attempt by drug trafficking organisations to hire white ladies and foreign nationals to move illicit drugs through the Nigerian borders.
He said that vigilant NDLEA operatives have consistently frustrated that move with the aid of modern technological tools and proactive intelligence.
In another interdiction on March 20 in Kano, NDLEA said its officers arrested a 45-year-old suspect, Michael Ogundele with a 50-litre steel gas cylinder at Gadar Tamburawa, along Zaria- Kano road, in which he concealed 50,000 pills of tramadol 225mg.
Similarly, the operatives have arrested one Sunday Ogar, 40, at Gunduwawa area of Kano on March 19 with 27kg skunk cannabis, while a female suspect Khadijah Abdullahi, 40, was arrested with 424 bottles of codeine-based syrup at Lungun Bulala Yalwa area of Kano on March 18.
Meanwhile, in Lagos, the duo of Olumuyiwa Kolawole and Samod Adisa were nabbed with 67.5kg skunk in Mushin just as 100.8kg of same psychoactive substance was recovered from the store of two fleeing suspects in Anifowoshe area of Mushin while one Isah Idris was arrested in Apapa with 4.5kg skunk; 600grams of tramadol 225mg and 30litres of codeine syrup on March 18.
Another suspect, Yahaya Mohamed, was arrested same day in Ikotun area of the state with different quantities of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine.
