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NDLEA arrest traffickers with different quatities of cocaine

This was disclosed in a statement by the Director, Media and Advocacy, NDLEA Headquarters, Femi Babafemi.

According to the statement, the driver, Lawal Tunde Rasheed, was arrested at the SAHCO export shed of the airport on Tuesday June 8, when he brought a consignment from his client to a freight forwarder for export to Malabo in Equatorial Guinea.

When the package was searched, one hundred and fifty grams of cocaine concealed inside two pieces of air freshener were discovered.

A follow-up operation the next day led to the arrest of  Egbo Emmanuel Maduka, at his residence.

Also on Friday, June 11, a male passenger, Udogwu James Johnson on Qatar Airlines from GRU in Brazil was arrested at D-arrival hall, of the airport with nine wraps of cocaine that weighed three hundred grams in his underwear.

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