Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have arrested a suspected drug trafficker, Egwu Phillip Inya, who claims to be a building engineer, while attempting to take delivery of illicit consignments concealed in pressure machines imported from South Africa.
The 42-year-old was arrested on December 2, 2024 at Okeyson Motor Park, Enugu when he showed up to collect his items.
The items, three units of pressure machines, had hidden inside them parcels of Loud, a synthetic strain of cannabis, weighing 7.40 kilograms.
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The consignments arrived at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State import shed on November 29, 2024.
Following credible intelligence, officers of the MMIA Strategic Command of the Agency had monitored the shipment pass through clearing processes up to a logistics company’s warehouse outside the airport, where it was to be collected by the consignee.
The importer however changed the point of collection to Enugu at the last minute.
As a result, NDLEA operatives in a follow up operation in Enugu arrested Egwu when he showed up to collect the consignments.
No fewer than 511,000 pills of tramadol were recovered from a Siena vehicle at Hildi, Askira Uba Way in Adamawa State by NDLEA operatives on patrol along the road in the early hours of December 6.
The occupants of the vehicle had made a detour on sighting the NDLEA team and after a distance abandoned the vehicle with the consignments after noticing the operatives were on their trail.
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