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NDLEA Busts Skunk, Heroin Consignments Concealed In Freezers, Gas Cylinders At Lagos Airport
Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency NDLEA have intercepted heroin, skunk concealed in deep freezers, cooking gas cylinders at the Lagos airport and idiroko.
Femi Babafemi, in a statement on Sunday revealed that the seizure was made while acting on intelligence which led to the interception of a consignment of 11.90 kilograms of heroin and 500grams of skunk concealed in deep freezers, which were part of a cargo that arrived from South Africa on Tuesday 7th March onboard Ethiopian airline via Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
The spokesman added that the Agency’s sniffer dogs were deployed to locate where the illicit drugs were hidden in the cargo and in no time, they identified the cartons packed in the deep freezers.
A total of four suspects that played active roles in the movement of the drugs and a truck driver have been arrested so far in connection with the seizure.
They include: Dairo Quam; Oluwaseun Ogunmene; Adeleke Abdulrasaq; Bamidele Adewale and Oluwafemi Ogunmeru.