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NDLEA Busts Skunk Consignments Concealed In Cream Tubes
The National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA has announced the arrest of a 24-year-old passenger travelling to Oman, Etounu Monday, at the Nnamdi Azikiwe International Airport, Abuja.
The suspect was arrested on Monday 27th February during the outward clearance of Ethiopian Airline flight ET 950 while attempting to export 1.924kg of skunk concealed in cream tubes.
The NDLEA operatives in Lagos on Friday 3rd March, recovered 244 parcels of Canadian Loud weighing 79 kilograms concealed in medium size wooden sound system speakers packed inside two out of four used vehicles in a container marked CRSU9258348 coming from Toronto via Montreal, Canada.
The imported vehicles used as cover for the drugs are a 2009 Jeep Wrangler and a 2009 Honda Ridgeline.
Similarly, NDLEA officers of the Directorate of Operations and General Investigation, DOGI, attached to courier firms in Lagos intercepted a consignment of nine parcels of methamphetamine concealed in native black soap, Dudu Osun, heading to Europe.