No less than thirty seven point five kilograms of such illicit consignments were intercepted in the past week, with the arrest of eleven suspects in interdiction operations that led to the seizure of almost four tons of skunk in Kaduna, Kano and Lagos state.
At the Lagos airport, a freight agent OgunsinaDamilare was arrested on Friday 6th January following a bid to export one point five kilograms of skunk hidden in foodstuffs to Dubai, through the SAHCO export shed of the Mohammaed International Airport in Lagos.
A similar attempt to ship eleven point five kilo grammesof the same substance to the United Kingdom was frustrated when the consignment concealed in a giant wooden sculpture was intercepted by NDLEA operatives of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigations at a courier company in Lagos.
At the Tincan port in Lagos, a shipment of twenty four point five kilo grammes of cannabis indica to Nigeria from Montreal, Canada was intercepted by operatives while an eight million naira bribe offered to NDLEA officers by the importer has been secured in an account for the prosecution of the case.
In Kano, NDLEA operatives on Saturday 7th Janauray intercepted Kabiru Abdulhamid, with one hundred and nineteen blocks of C/S weighing at Semugu area.
Chairman and Chief Executive of NDLEA, Buba Marwa commended the officers and men of agency for the arrests and seizures and charged them to intensify the heat on drug cartels in Nigeria.
