Cocaine Bound For Europe And Others Intercepted At The Lagos Airport

Iwuozor Chinedu, a Nigerian living in Athens, Greece, is at the top of the list of persons who have been detained thus far in connection with the seizures.

Large consignments of illegal substances, in particular cocaine, heroin, methamphetamine, and ephedrine, that were intended for Europe but were instead stopped there at Murtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos.
In a statement released on Sunday, the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency (NDLEA) stated that it had discovered 75.75kgs of cannabis indica, which originated in Montreal, Canada, concealed within a crate containing four old cars.
Iwuozor Chinedu, a Nigerian living in Athens, Greece, is the person most recently detained in connection with the seizures, according to an NDLEA spokeswoman.
On Friday, February 3, NDLEA officials from the tarmac team intercepted two bags during a secondary check operation at the base of the runway, and he was debarked from an Ethiopian Airlines flight.

According to the statement, “He was debarked from an Ethiopian Airlines flight on Friday, February 3rd when officers in the tarmac team of NDLEA intercepted two suitcases during a secondary check operation at the foot of the aircraft.”
“Two large pellets wrapped in foil papers and a few sprinkles of pepper were discovered from each of the two sides of one of the bags when the bags were searched in front of Chinedu and other airport stakeholders. The pellets were employed to create fictitious walls along the bag’s sides.
With gross weights of 900 grammes and 1.30 kilogrammes, respectively, the two shipments “included drugs that tested positive to cocaine and heroin,” he revealed.

Similarly, 800 grammes of skunk were found hidden in two small radio sets that Mrs. Sylvester Gloria Onome was bringing to Dubai, United Arab Emirate, and she was detained by NDLEA agents at the NAHCO export shed of the airport on Monday, January 30.
A shipment headed to Congo Kinshasa that contained 111 bottles of body lotion and 24.50 kg of ephedrine, a chemical precursor and key element in the production of methamphetamine, was also seized by agents on the same day, he added.
Following the first detention of two freight brokers, the package, according to the NDLEA spokesman, was eventually tracked down to a trader at the Alaba trade fair complex in Lagos’ Ojo neighbourhood, Onyekachukwu Uduekwelu.

He disclosed that another housewife, Mrs. Okpara Chizoba Victoria, was detained on Friday, January 27 at her home in the Ijesha neighbourhood of Lagos after 300 grammes of skunk were discovered concealed in a bag of crabs that she was shipping to Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The seizure comes just one month after agents at the Tincan harbour stopped a shipment of 24.5kg of cannabis indica that was hidden inside old cars from Canada.