This was disclosed in a statement by the Agency’s Director of Media and Advocacy, Femi Babafemi, on Sunday
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Brig.-Gen. Mohammad Buba Marwa, the Chief Executive of the National Drug Law Enforcement Agency said that this would help to broaden the agency’s Drug Test Regime (DTR) with a view to fighting drug scourge in the country.
The UK Minister of State for Immigration, Caroline Noakes, made the assertion during her visit to some facilities of the National Agency for the Prohibition of Trafficking in Persons in Lagos
The NDLEA spokesperson, Mitchell Ofoyeju, disclosed this in a statement on Saturday
The tins were factory-sealed such that officers had to cut it open to discover the concealed drugs
The suspect, who claimed to be an Ivorian, was arrested while attempting to board a Qatar Airways flight to Indonesia with a Cote d’lvoire International passport bearing the name Grou Bi Clauvis
A suspected drug trafficker, Roland Chukwudi Tochukwu, 37, who was apprehended for importing 2.045kg of heroin from Nairobi, Kenya, was found in possession of a fake travel ticket indicating that he was coming from China
The banned drug, which originated from Pakistan, was left unclaimed on the conveyor belt at the arrival hall during the inward screening of passengers
Forty-two of the suspects were intercepted while bringing drugs into the country, while 61 others were nabbed attempting to smuggle drugs out of the country
The arrests were made at the Murtala Mohammed International Airport, Lagos during screening of passengers on an Ethiopian Airline flight to Hong Kong and Egypt Airline flight to Athens
Officials discovered that the brassiere of the suspect was laden with narcotics at the Murtala Muhammed International Airport, Lagos during the inward screening of passengers on a South African Airways flight