Operatives of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency have frustrated the efforts of a businessman who is an auto spare parts dealer, Okeke Ebuka Igwe, to send two parcels of 1.10kg cocaine concealed in vehicle propellers to Angola.
According to available information, the drug was to pass through the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Ikeja, Lagos State.
Igwe, who wanted to use the export shed of the MMIA for the export of the drug, was arrested on February 24, 2025 following credible intelligence.
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During an interview with the suspect, he claimed that he is a businessman selling auto parts in ASPANDA, Trade Fair Complex, Ojo area of Lagos State.
The bid by another suspect, Ezechi Iyke Cyprian, to move a large consignment of cocaine weighing 5.40 kilograms to Owerri, the Imo State capital, in his Toyota Sienna bus on February 23 was also frustrated by operatives of a special operations unit of NDLEA, who arrested him following weeks of intelligence and surveillance.
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